CNN's average struggling family raised eyebrows with milk consumption, but there are bigger problems
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There are good ways to cover how supply chain problems accompanied by inflation are leading to rising prices on many products. CNN took another path with a human interest story on a middle-class family’s grocery budget. They took the fearmongering, senCNN's average struggling family raised eyebrows with milk consumption, but there are bigger problems
There are good ways to cover how supply chain problems accompanied by inflation are leading to rising prices on many products. CNN took another path with a human interest story on a middle-class family’s grocery budget. They took the fearmongering, sensationalist, we’re-not-gonna-offer-context-or-reliable-information path. The Stotler family is pure media-bait. They’re white (because of course they are), they live in Texas (again, of course), and they have a whole bunch of kids, most of them adopted. CNN’s Evan McMorris-Santoro interviewed them about their grocery budget, accompanied by lots of footage of the family—including five or six kids who I am so sure are included on every supermarket run—going shopping. Read more
