Will Fox 'News' Retract Their False 'Retail Theft' Stories?

"US retail lobbyists retract key claim on 'organized' retail crime".​

Will Fox 'News' Retract Their False 'Retail Theft' Stories?

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The main lobbying group for U.S. retailers retracted its claim that "organized retail crime" accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis.

A spokesperson for the National Retail Federation said Tuesday that the organization had removed the sentence from its report on organized retail crime published in April. It produced the report in collaboration with private security firm K2 Integrity.

According to NRF spokesperson Danielle Inman, the claim that organized crime accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses was based on two-year-old testimony from Ben Dugan, former president of the advocacy group Coalition of Law Enforcement and Reta

 

What America Could Look Like Without Fox News

1. Republicans would dump Trump
2. The GOP would abandon efforts to restrict voter access and attempts at minority rule.
3. The country would be far less divided by the culture war battles over abortion, LGBTQ rights, and public schools.
4. No major political party in America would sanction the racist use of “Great Replacement Theory” rhetoric and the demonization of immigrants
5. American democracy would be far less threatened by the violent politics of white Christian resentment and Christian nationalism​

An America without Fox News would still have intense and even angry disagreements. But we would have

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  • a fighting chance to recover some basic civic virtues: a common faith that an electoral defeat is an opportunity to reorganize for the next election rather than a necessarily illegitimate outcome;
  • a firm belief that legislative disagreements involve political opponents, not mortal enemies; and
  • an unwavering conviction that “us” and “we”, rather than “they” versus “you”, are the principled pronouns of democracy.

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