Astroturf’d
The NYT has a credulous story about how ACTUALLY restaurant servers don’t want to be paid for. I know the feeling — I have always advocated for decently paid tenured positions to be replaced by adjuncts making starvation wages. Who doesn’t want to be paid less, really? Anyway, funny thing about this:
2/ The NYT only IDs one worker speaking out: “Maggie Raczynski, a bartender at an Outback Steakhouse in upstate New York.”
A link shows Raczynski is part of the “Restaurant Workers of America”
*What* is that? I turned to an advanced tool called Googlehttps://t.co/vHGh2BdXQU pic.twitter.com/v9DAVzH9tY
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 25, 2019
4/ And turns out, the “Restaurant Workers of America” has been getting advice from a big lobbying & PR firm organizing against the minimum wage increase. https://t.co/cOAFZsjHpC pic.twitter.com/xN7tXqOWcg
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 25, 2019
Well, not very funny, actually. Meanwhile, good story on the more prominent story being completely botched right now:
The Trump machine's rush to assert an adamantly conclusive interpretation of the investigation on nothing but a crony appointee's spin on it, and then using this to discredit the larger attempt to uphold the rule of law and separation of powers is completely poisonous.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
The media's atrocious gullibility, which is letting this happen without serious resistance, is even more scandalous than the credulity that herded public opinion behind the invasion of Iraq. Because we already *know* this administration does nothing but lie.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019