USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09876
Notes:
Via FERN website. 7 pages., Addresses the broad issue of "fake news" through a case example focused on reporting at the "complex intersection of the meatpacking industry, immigration, the rise of fake news, and the changing face of America's heartland." The example focuses on reporting about Somali and other refugees working at a meat packing plant near Garden City, Kansas.
Essay within the theme, "The Jungle at 100: A Century of the Journalism of Reform. Involves Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle," and the ABC News "PrimeTime Live" broadcast in 1992 (and again in 1997) about unsanitary food practices at Food Lion, one of the nation's largest food store chains.
