On October 27th, Idaho's Magic Valley-based Times-News blared: "Dairy's Social Impact Studied." The article, not surprisingly, is a joke.

Rather than do his journalistic homework and compare the actual methods and data found in the so-called "study" (which you can access in full here) with the researchers' and industry's glowing spin--dairy was the Magic Valley's economic lifeboat during this economic downturn, uninsured underpaid dairy workers don't overly burden hospitals, and similar familiar tripe--the writer, Joshua Palmer, clearly takes what they have to say for granted. Read more...