NBC News was forced to issue a retraction after falsely reporting a slaughterhouse employed an underage migrant when the network learned he was really a 21-year-old man.
NBC News admits it got the age of a person wrong who it thought was a minor working in a Kansas slaughterhouse.this week after falsely reporting a slaughterhouse employed an underage migrant worker when the left-wing network learned he was really a 21-year-old man. following the retraction, saying the scandal-plagued network"recklessly" broadcasted inaccurate information that could have been avoided if it simply worked with the company.
NBC News was forced to issue a humiliating retraction this week after falsely reporting a slaughterhouse employed an underage migrant worker."That hazardous work, illegal for anyone under 18," reporter Julia Ainsley said as NBC showed viewers unnerving images of bloody floors of the PSSI slaughterhouse in Dodge City, Kansas.
"Pedro says he has been working there since he was 15," Ainsley said before noting that PSSI previously settled with the U.S. Labor Dept. after investigators uncovered underage workers. "As part of its settlement, PSSI pledged it would no longer hire children and paid a $1.5 million fine… but Pedro is still on the job," the reporter said.
NBC News’ updated story began by reporting a"Guatemalan migrant who claimed he worked as a minor cleaning a slaughterhouse in Kansas by night while attending high school during the day is actually 21, NBC News has learned." Packers Sanitation Services Inc. blasted NBC in a statement following the concerning retraction, saying the network"recklessly" broadcasted inaccurate information that could have been avoided if it simply worked with the company.
PSSI said that after the segment ran, the company immediately reviewed its entire workforce to search for the individual claiming to be a minor.
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