Craig Harrington & Cristina Lopez: Univision Fails To Disclose Conflicts Of Interest In Misleading, Anti-minimum Wage Op-ed

Media Matters for America, Media Matters for America
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 11:31pm

Univision Noticias failed to adequately disclose for readers the financial ties between an op-ed contributor and organizations aligned against raising the federal minimum wage, allowing the author to misleadingly claim that increasing the baseline hourly wage would actually hurt minority workers and destroy jobs. In a July 6 Spanish-language op-ed published by Univision.com, Daniel Garza of the far-right Libre Initiative claimed that the "inconvenient reality" of a minimum wage hike is that it would hurt "the most vulnerable" by increasing labor costs and reducing demand for workers.

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Craig Harrington & Cristina Lopez: Univision Fails To Disclose Conflicts Of Interest In Misleading, Anti-minimum Wage Op-ed

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