WHAT SHORTAGE?

Lead story on Wednesday for the major stations: there's no food/flour/rice shortage.
A little digging would have shown that to all the reporters who were eager to tell the nation what supermarket owners were telling them. Of course this led to panic buying.

Nadilene Singh of CNC 3, after your report on Monday evening, we were expecting to see a follow up story on Tuesday from the same supermarket you went to which apparently did not have any flour, and all reporters as a matter of fact who covered the 'shortage'.
Were its shelves restocked on Tuesday? If they were, when did they receive fresh supplies? How much did they have to pay for the new stock? How much more was added on for the consumer? The Legal Affairs minister says 35%. Is this true?

So the minister and the suppliers say no shortage, but the supermarkets and chicken processors are saying something else.
Who is correct?
Which one of you enterprising reporters is going to get to the bottom of this riddle?
That's what you are being paid for - to provide answers for your viewers and to ask the hard questions of public officials that they will never get the chance to ask!