Economy
Related: About this forumA guy was caught stealing $950 in stuff from Walgreens. It led to 309 news stories.
David Weigel RetweetedWalgreens was caught stealing $4.5 million from employees. It led to 1 story.
Wage theft is bigger than all robberies combined but you wouldn't know it watching the news
Link to tweet
He's referring to this:
Walgreens to settle California bag check suit for $4.5M
Published Dec. 16, 2020
By Lisa Burden
Contributor
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It probably got more than one story back then.
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,572 posts)whathehell
(29,082 posts)Nittersing
(6,368 posts)From his Twitter bio:
"6 years ago today I raised my company's min wage to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines.
Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought.
Always invest in people."
Grins
(7,226 posts)nilram
(2,893 posts)It's not about the property theft that happened in June at a Walgreens, or about the $4.5 million fine that Walgreens paid about a year ago, it's a criticism of the media coverage since those events happened. It argues that the wage theft that affects tens of thousands of Walgreens employees should get more coverage than a property theft at one of their outlets.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Criminal activity always gets more news coverage.
nilram
(2,893 posts)"In the United States, only certain types of theft are newsworthy."
A wage theft, which happens to be called a "civil" offense but affected virtually all Walmart employees, gets more news coverage than a property theft that affected one outlet of one large corporation.
It's a critique of the news media, not a shrugging acceptance.
Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)Also: thousands of humans got robbed today and it didnt make the news.
The Moral Panic here and elsewhere over the manufactured Flash Mob box store shoplifting crisis is pathetic and racist.
Weve obviously learned nothing.