Misleading, myth-based reporting risks giving cover to slash vital programs: CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas onWaPo's disability insurance series

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jackson, Janine (author / Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and Vallas, Rebecca (author / Center for American Progress)
    Format:
    Interview
    Publication Date:
    2017
    URL:
    https://fair.org/home/misleading-myth-based-reporting-risks-giving-cover-to-slash-vital-programs/
    Published:
    USA: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: D11274
    Subject Term:
    accuracy, coverage, information issues, journalism, reporting, rural communities, rural poor, rural populations, social services, Washington Post, and government aid
    Notes:
    Online from FAIR website. June 9 episode of CounterSpin. 7 pages., Interview inviting analysis of a series in the Washington Post newspaper. Focused on receivers of disability benefits in rural America. It identified inaccuracies and "deeply offensive allegation" in reporting.

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