The credit downgrade must be having truly deleterious effects on New York-based reporters. At least one is hyping the merits of “freeganism,” which is just a politically correct euphemism for dumpster diving. “Amid S&P downgrades and widespread panic about financial markets, an anti-consumerism movement quietly marches on: Freeganism,” ABCNews.com's Reshma Kirpalani argued in an August 8 article: