Thread: CNN's Pilgrim Highlights Media Bias at AP

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CNN's Pilgrim Highlights Media Bias at AP: Arrested Illegal Aliens Called 'Victims'
Posted by Brent Baker on December 15, 2006 - 20:09.
Filling in for Lou Dobbs on Friday night, CNN's Kitty Pilgrim highlighted a case of bias at the “supposedly objective” Associated Press, which led a dispatch about the federal roundup Tuesday of workers at meatpacking plants, by referring to how “hordes of police” had “stormed” the plants, but “the illegal workers arrested may not have been the only victims.” Pilgrim marveled: “That's right, the Associated Press calling illegal aliens -- including some charged with stealing the identities of hundreds of Americans -- it called them 'victims.'"

Indeed, in a Friday morning AP dispatch as posted by Yahoo, "Immigration raids may affect meat prices," the AP's Roxana Hegeman led her Wichita-datelined story: “When hordes of police and immigration officials stormed meatpacking plants in six states this week, the illegal workers arrested may not have been the only victims. Consumers and the industry itself may be feeling the repercussions in a shortage of meatpackers, higher wage costs and, ultimately, higher prices for the beef that lands on America's tables at home and in restaurants....”

Pilgrim's short item toward the end of the first half hour of the December 15 Lou Dobbs Tonight:


“This broadcast is often criticized for taking a position on issues such as illegal immigration and border security. Well, here’s how the supposedly objective Associated Press covered Tuesday’s immigration raids on Swift Company meatpacking plants. In a story from Wichita, Kansas, and reprinted across the country, the AP reported that [text on screen under “Media Bias?”] 'hordes of police and immigration officials stormed meatpacking plants in six states this week, the illegal workers arrested may not have been the only victims.' That's right, the Associated Press calling illegal aliens -- including some charged with stealing the identities of hundreds of Americans -- it called them 'victims.'”

I will gladly pay DOUBLE OR TRIPLE todays prices for meat to get these leeches deported back to where they belong! And remember this---the only real difference is the bottom line to the profit of the meat packing companies!

If you believe for one second that they are hiring illegals to "keep prices low", you need to have your head examined! Beef prices have been at a historical high for the last 5 years---and there are more illegals employed in every type of meatpacking plant now than ever before!

I will tell you this---close down Swift, and seize their assets---redistribute the assets to unemployed American Citizen meatpackers, letting them work and own the plants, and see what will happen to price, and QUALITY of the meat---I BET THE QUALITY INCREASES, AND THE PRICE WILL DROP!

i believe its time to go to the AP websight and slam them with
mail and tell them that the real victims are people who had their
identity and credit stolen

I saw that. The only victims were the legal workers that were having their wages depressed because of the illegals present. The reporter that called these illegals victims should be raked over the coals much in the same way Michael Richards did after he dropped that N bomb.

Thomas wrote:

I will tell you this---close down Swift, and seize their assets---redistribute the assets to unemployed American Citizen meatpackers, letting them work and own the plants, and see what will happen to price, and QUALITY of the meat---I BET THE QUALITY INCREASES, AND THE PRICE WILL DROP!

NOW THERE IS AN IDEA I CAN WRAP MY ARMS AND ENERGY AROUND! A real consequence not a pitance of $200.00 per head. Thomas you and Dixie should put your heads together and get this problem solved post haste. Better yet both of you run for congress.