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“Mercy Reed was famed for her instructing: “she ate the luminous material with a spatula to show the girls that it was ‘harmless,’”15 licking it right in front of them.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“Journalists at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) did an analysis and found that, within twenty-eight days of being posted, this single shoplifting video spawned 309 separate articles about the Walgreens incident. It was difficult to consume news in the U.S. without confronting this story in some format. At the same time, the researchers found not a single article about a multi-million-dollar wage-theft settlement that Walgreens paid to its California employees.12”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Later she told me, “The restraining order was the catalyst that pushed him over the edge. I hesitated a long time before I went forward to get it, but the company urged me on. Ultimately, I was told that my reluctance might be impacting my advancement at work. That was when I finally said, ‘Okay, it’s worth taking a chance.’ The shooting was the day before we were to appear in court with Farley to make the temporary restraining order permanent.” But Laura spent that day and many more in the hospital. Farley spent that day and many more in jail. Newspeople spent that day, and many more, reporting that Farley had “just snapped” and gone on a shooting spree. But that never, ever happens.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“In 2023, Walgreens admitted that the company had overblown its prior claims about retail theft, and investigative reporting debunked the hysteria by showing that reported shoplifting was decreasing and that the company had planned the store closures for unrelated business reasons.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News