What is ‘pink slime’ journalism? “Pink slime” journalism is named after a meat byproduct and describes outlets that publish poor quality reports that appear to be local news. In the past decade, many ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A finely textured beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” can now legally be classified as ground beef, WGBH reports. In 2012, ABC News aired an exposé that first ...

As the 2024 U.S. election draws closer, a dark facet of the media world has some in the industry on edge: a particular type of fake news website that is designed to appear legitimate. The ubiquity of ...

Pink slime. Appetizing, right? Well, you eat it each time you order a burger at a fast-food restaurant. What is it? Trimmings from cattle carcasses that are heated and then bathed in ammonium ...

Websites posing as local news outlets funded by partisan groups have surged past the number of sites of independent daily newspapers on the internet, according to a report released Tuesday by a ...

For more than two decades, Phillip Martin conducted investigative reporting at GBH News. A multi-award-winning journalist and 2024 inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, his ...

“Journalistic Meat or Fraudulent Filler:” Students will be introduced to the term “pink slime journalism” — misinformation in long-trusted local news — by looking into a specific claim from a pink ...

Pink slime was approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2001 as a means to reconstitute otherwise inedible and e. Coli -laden bovine connective tissue. It's an icky process that ...

The highly anticipated proceeding gets underway with Beef Products Inc. telling jurors that the broadcaster killed much of its business with a series of reports in March 2012. By Eriq Gardner Former ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — You’ve probably seen the ...