Session #87 · 1961–63

Speech #870008287

I cannot come to any other conclusion than that this was gross misrepresentation and that the explanation offered was anything but a lame one. Still another inconsistency comes to my attention. At one point the narrator asks a migrant: "How much did you earn?" The reply was: "One dollar." The presumption here. although not clearly stated. was that the dollar was all that worker earned for that day. I submit that the average viewer could with understandable justification assume that this pay situation was normal. Furthermore. in the opening scene. a man trying to assemble a crew of workers is quoted as saying. "Over here75 cents a day were paying today." Actually. the facts are quite different and they are readily verifiable to anyone who wants them.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT MICHEL
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
870008287
Paragraph
#4
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