Comments on: Not-So Candid Cameras: Supermarket Films Protesting Farmworkers’ Kids

By: Farmworkers Score major Victory in the Fight for Fair Treatment

Farmworkers Score major Victory in the Fight for Fair Treatment — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:09:53 +0000

[...] There are still some obvious holdouts. The most glaring is Publix Supermarkets, Inc., which operates 1,000 stores across the Southeast and whose Lakeland, Fla. head office is barely 100 miles from the fields of Immokalee. For five years the CIW has been trying to get Publix to do what ARAMARK and the other corporations have done, to no avail. [...]

By: Freebie

Freebie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:01:40 +0000

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By: John

John — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:37:18 +0000

So they hired someone to video the protesters. O.K.

But “focusing on the baby”? Give me a break. Consumer cameras are autofocus by default, so I don’t he was doing anything specific to focus on the baby. But I assume you mean the less technical sense of focus, zoom in on? In all likelihood, with the standard focal length of a video camera, the frame included the baby and everything around the baby. The baby maybe took up 2 or 3 percent of the image area. So the guy was “focusing” on a protesters. One of whom brought his baby along. I suspose he might have zoomed in on the baby, but really, how would the protester have known what focal length was being used?

It was in the interest of the protester to make it seem as creepy as possible, and you the journalist didn’t even turn on your brain and think about whether he might not have been exagerating or lying.

By: Callie LaDay

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By: Nani

Nani — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:55:34 +0000

Barry, I’m so glad you are now writing a blog about the difficult issues surrounding our country’s food production. Bravo for continuing to report on the tomato pickers and their worthy fight. I will spread the word!

Best, Romney (Nani)

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:30:33 +0000

[...] isn’t. He’s launched a blog called Politics of the Plate. His latest post is typical: a well-reported piece on the creepy harassment members of Florida’s Coalition of Immokalee Workers are getting as [...]

By: Julie Rubaud

Julie Rubaud — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:32:24 +0000

Creepy. Nice work Barry.