"Living Wages", Meet Economics
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Radley Balko's Spurlock Watch claims a group affiliated with Morgan Spurlock's TV series refuses to pay their own employees fair wages:
What's funny is that Spurlock dismissed the "a higher minimum wage means fewer jobs" argument out of hand on the show. Yet it's an argument his activist allies and co-sponsors actually embraced when someone tried to make them ingest a bit of their own medicine.
If he's really serious about forcing employers to pay better wages, Spurlock might start with the allegedly pro-labor activist group that helped pay for his show. [sic]
A careful reading of the Spurlock Watch site will show that the guy running it is a real idealogue who doesn't really need 'facts' to fit to use them anyway.
He claims (and you repeated, Joe) that an article at Daily Kos says that ACORN sponsored an episode. But that's not correct, the Daily Kos article says ACORN sponsored a preview screening of the show, after it was made. This means that while you may not have agreed with the premise of the show, its production wasn't funded by ACORN.
I too find Spurlock's show preachy, but that's his style. I just won't watch it. I don't think it's appropriate to actually exaggerate facts until they become lies to criticize it.
Posted by: Shabbir on August 1, 2005 3:20 PM | permalinkNo more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.