Last night KSTP Television ran a
story about restaurant owners’ take
on what an increase in
minimum wage
would mean to their business. Restaurant owners, like anyone else, are entitled to their opinions so I won’t question their pessimistic outlook. (Although I think we should.) I grant them the right to grumble. Instead I want to talk about how a story like this is presented overall and also point out at least one point in this story when information was reported so that it might be confused as fact when it wasn’t.
First, I am going to stick to my premise that these restaurant owners are expressing opinions, not facts, about their business. When they say an increase in wages will prevent them from hiring, expanding, getting loans and so on, I don’t know what facts they are basing those statements. They don’t tell us and maybe it would make…
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