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Aug 11 2021
News
‘They rake in profits – everyone else suffers’: US workers lose out as big chicken gets bigger
The tight grip that America’s largest meat processing company has on the chicken industry has generated dire consequences for its workers, farmers and the environment in one of the US’s leading poultry-producing states, an investigation has found.
Tyson Foods is ranked 73rd on the Fortune 500 list, with a revenue of $43bn in the last fiscal year.
Tyson accounts for the single
The Guardian
Jul 30 2020
News
People who use social media for news are less knowledgeable than other news consumers, study says
Americans who use social media for their news consumption are less likely to follow and understand news about the elections or the coronavirus, according to a new study from Pew Research Center’s American News Pathways project.
Researchers analyzed data from five different surveys conducted from October 2019 to June 2020, each with over 8,000 respondents. They studied the seven most
Poynter
Nov 19 2019
News
Overwhelming Majority Of Voters Desire More Vigilant Enforcement Of Campaign Finance Laws
The overwhelming majority of 2020 general election voters would like to see the Federal Election Commission (FEC) take a more active role in enforcing existing campaign finance laws on the books as corruption was rated the most serious problem facing the country, a poll released Monday found.
The poll of 855 likely 2020 presidential voters, commissioned by the Campaign Legal Center, a
The Daily Caller
Nov 06 2020
News
The Places Hit Hardest by COVID Went Overwhelmingly for Trump
The 376 counties with the worst COVID-19 outbreaks right now almost uniformly went for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.
Out of the 376 worst-hit counties, Trump defeated former Vice President Joe Biden in about 350 of them, or 93%. Most of the counties were rural areas in red states, according to the AP, including Montana,
Vice
Aug 10 2021
Opinion
The Mike Lindell election lie ad that Fox News declined ran on a Fox-owned station in Minneapolis
A commercial ad from MyPillow CEO and known election liar Mike Lindell for his “cyber symposium” ran on Sunday evening on the Fox Television Stations-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lindell is hosting the event this week to continue boosting a wide range of far-out conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
After Fox News declined to air Lindell’s ad and he retaliated by pulling
Media Matters
Nov 30 2021
Analysis
Media hit for 'sophomoric and ridiculous' take on Biden's travel ban after calling Trump's restrictions racist
President Biden imposed a travel ban on several African countries in the wake of the new strain of the coronavirus, the omicron variant, despite calling his predecessor "racist" and "xenophobic" for imposing his own travel restrictions - a flashback the media has largely ignored.
In 2017, then-President Trump imposed travel restrictions on six predominantly Muslim countries over
Fox News Digital
May 04 2021
News
Trump ‘poisoning’ democracy with ‘big lie’ claim -key House Republican
The No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday said former President Donald Trump was “poisoning our democratic system” with his persistent false claims that his November election defeat was the result of fraud.
U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a Trump critic, assailed him in a tweet, risking further raising the ire
Reuters
Sep 14 2020
News
Bias in Others' News a Greater Concern Than Bias in Own News
Six in seven Americans think there is at least a fair amount of political bias in news coverage in general, and over half say the same of the news source they rely on most, according to a recent Gallup/Knight Foundation study. Yet 69% of Americans say they are more concerned about bias in the news other people consume than its presence in their own news (29%).
These findings are based
Gallup
May 04 2021
News
Democrats confront difficult prospects for midterms
House Democrats are beginning to confront the challenging reality awaiting them in the 2022 midterm elections amid a spate of retirements and dim redistricting prospects.
Democrats had hoped that brightening economic and public health outlooks combined with ongoing discord within the GOP would save them from the kind of electoral thrashing that historically besets the president’s party
The Hill
Dec 21 2021
News
How these workers turned the ‘Great Resignation’ into better careers
The pandemic has prompted many people to leave the job market. Most have not turned that downtime into an opportunity to upgrade their skills, but many of those who have are finding good results.
When the pandemic hit in early 2020, Angie Champion Holland’s career in hotel construction sales fizzled. With travel severely restricted, building projects got canceled. By May, she was out of
Christian Science Monitor