Postville: A City Under Siege

CBS News takes a look at Postville, 13 months after the raid.

Another weak effort from CBS. It doesn't mention 9300 counts of child labor violations, bank fraud, the ongoing attempt to sell Agriprocessors, the near-evictions, etc. God help us if newspapers close and we're left to  'reporting' like this.

Comments

[Ben]

This is the a pro-illegal immigration report. I understand that it is time for everybody to follow Rubashkin's bussiness model. CBS approves of it.

[Hometown Postville]

I agree that much more could have been mentioned, but it's only a news clip, not "60 Minutes."

[op2ed]

This is the 5th story CBS has done on Postville - the charges against the Rubashkins, including interviews with a boy who was 14 when he worked at the plant were included in previous reports.

[Shmarya]

Each report was very weak. All left out important information, and all downplayed everything but the immigration end of the story.

CBS is widely considered to be the worst of all media covering Postville – at least according to the Postville people I speak with.

[mr mo]

picture of the day on collive.com:

http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=4025

[Proton Soup]

"This is the a pro-illegal immigration report. I understand that it is time for everybody to follow Rubashkin's bussiness model. CBS approves of it."

it may be pro-illegal. and i can see why some people would be pro-illegal. it replaces our previous slavery model with a brown-skinned one. before, we had to send the plantation to the slaves, but now we can import the slaves to the plantation. and it's a kinder, gentler plantation. no shackles, only electronic bracelets to keep them from running away.

brown slaves are great. no investment required, just rent one for the day. most can get away with paying them cash, evading taxes, healthcare, disability insurance... and that last one is important because if your brown slave breaks, you can just discard him and wear down a fresh new one.

yeah, there are people that support this business model, but they are not the sort of people we should be supporting. they will call you racists when you oppose them, but stand firm because they are the users.

[s]

hopefully some of the Hispanic women there were given the space and means to put in vegetable gardens this year if they had any interest in that. Morale booster and source of food/extra income. The deacon for the cluster of 3 Catholic churches including Postville has been in the greenhouse business 25 years, so must know of poople who no longer put in gardens who might have had space others could use for that.