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Subscribe to RSSInvestigative journalism doesn't necessarily take months, particularly if you have a good idea and a number of reporters who can share the workload.
Case in point: 21 students in a Princeton University summer journalism program visited more than 20 drugstores in four New York City boroughs this week and found dozens of expired over-the-counter medications on the shelves.
And these weren't just mom-and-pop operations. Among the establishments where the meds -- including infant vitamin supplements, anti-nausea medication tand pain relievers -- weren't being pulled in a timely fashion were stores operated by large chains, including CVS, Duane Reade, Rite Aid and Walgreens.
Selling expired medications would be a violation of New York state law, the students found.
A tip of the hat to the students and professor(s) for a sharply focused and well-executed investigative story that was waiting only an arm's length away.
-- Mike Brunker, msnbc.com projects editor
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Walgreens let me join their drug medication program for $20.00 a year with the understanding I was getting my medicine at a discount because I didn't have insurance. Sounds like a good deal, but after a year I found out they where not only selling me my medication but also charging insurance company that I didn't belong to. In return this insurance company (name unknown) was billing Medicare. Do you think Walgreens gave the money back to the insurance company so they could give it back to Medicare? I doubt it!