Ice Cream Chain Suing FOX Affiliate Over TV Report

Who would've ever thought ice cream would be unhealthy? That's what one reporter discovered in his report, and now he's getting sued over it.

Matthew Prince, owner of D'Lites Emporium ice cream stores, is suing Arnold Diaz, a reporter for Fox 5 News in New York, over reports that Prince's ice cream is not as healthy as the advertisements claim. D'Lites claims that its ice cream is "low in sodium, sugar, fat and carbohydrates." But according to Diaz's TV report, the ice cream chain is "selling a lie," and his team performed laboratory tests that suggests the ice cream wasn't as healthy at the chain claimed it was.

Prince said that Diaz's team tested just the concentrated, unfrozen ice cream mix and not the final product that is sold to consumers, and that thanks to this report, his business has suffered severely. He is now suing Diaz, as well as parent company News Crop and FOX 5

We have a similar kind of TV report here in West Texas, although ours seems to be based more on the health inspector's report rather than an investigative report. Now if it were the health inspector saying that this ice cream was unhealthy, I think this would be an altogether different situation. But here, it looks like all we have is a case of false advertising and an overzealous consumer watchdog.

So, who do you think is in the wrong? The ice cream store owner who's selling "unhealthy" ice cream, the TV reporter who "busted" him, or both?