Moyers Exposé

[Jordan Barab]

In case you missed this Friday night, you can still watch on-line here. (The written transcript is also available): http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06272008/watch2.html

 

And a rather angry columnist who viewed the program: http://dolores.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1624455-bush-administration-allowing-chopped-body-parts

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jordan Barab <jba...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Subject: Moyers Exposé Tonight at 9:00
To: confin...@googlegroups.com

Tonight on PBS (9:00 in DC. Check local listings), Bill Moyers' Journal and Exposé will do a report on Worker Safety based on the Charlotte Observer's recent series on the plight of poultry workers and underreporting of injuries and illnesses (the subject of the House Education and Labor Committee's June 19 hearing.) Appearing in the program will be Bob Whitmore, who was also one of the witnesses at the hearing.

Injury rates reported at America's poultry plants have dropped dramatically in recent years, and so have workplace safety inspections. Are regulators rewarding companies for inaccurate reporting of injuries? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS go inside America's poultry industry, which employs almost a quarter million workers nationwide, to show the reality of working conditions and to investigate how official statistics showing a drop in workplace injuries may have been the result of deceptive reporting.

More on the program here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06272008/profile.html

The Charlotte Observer series is here: http://www.charlotte.com/poultry/

--
Jordan Barab

--
Jordan Barab