“As Steven Keehner
documented at FAIR in July, a single viral video of shoplifting at Walgreens solicited over 300 articles nationwide, not including write-ups in South Africa, Mexico, UK, and South Korea. If you’re wondering this is, dollar for dollar, 474,183% more coverage than the one (1) mainstream media article about Walgreens admitting it
stole $4.5 million from its employees over several years. The five Walgreens closings announced last week garnered coverage in
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
ABC News,
CBS News,
Yahoo News (which
ran three stories),
USA Today, and
Bloomberg. There were reports about the closings on Local TV news stations in Rockford, Ill., Miami, Albany, Chicago, Dayton, Ohio and Jacksonville, Fla. Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right-wing media conglomerate that owns TV networks, ran an article about it that was put on the front page of hundreds of
“local” news sites. Walgreens closings have been heavily featured on Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Fox and Friends.”
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