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"Don’t expect food prices to suddenly skyrocket despite what you’ve heard about crops rotting in the fields in California. A misleading story on NBC Nightly News has led several news outlets to report incorrect information about the state of California agriculture, sparking fears that food prices might soon rise due to a supposed labor shortage. The report highlighted “immigration fears” and claimed “a surge of arrests” by the Trump administration was partly to blame. The problem: the central fact relied on by NBC News to back up the anecdotes of the single farmer interviewed is two years old. The connection to current debates over immigration or the Trump administration is simply imaginary."
Fake News: NBC News Phony Crop Rot Story Goes Viral - Breitbart
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They put a figure of $13 million being lost in 2 counties based on a survey of members of the Grower-Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. What NBC neglected to mention was the survey was conducted in 2016 for conditions in 2015. In fact, they say the results of the survey for this year (2017) won't be available until 2018.
The $13 million is also questionable.
Now NBC only does about 21 minutes of national news per night (rest of time for commercials). This is the type of story they could have put on the air anytime this week meaning they had plenty of time to check out/verify facts in this so-called reporter's story and maybe they did. Maybe the whole operation is corrupt or incompetent because it has to be one or the other. Of course MSNBC only picked up the NBC story and Fortune magazine picked up the same as*hat story.
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