A "pink slime" news outlet is an outlet that makes a planted story look like local news. [View all]

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We've talked about them on DU before, specifically the outfit known as Metric Media.

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Josh is sharing a story from a "pink slime" news outlet. That is, an outlet that makes it look like local news. This one is run by LGIS. It's a false story.

“Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.” https://westcooknews.com/stories/626581140-oprf-to-implement-race-based-grading-system-in-2022-23-school-year

CJR had a piece about that organization in 2020: https://cjr.org/analysis/as-election-looms-a-network-of-mysterious-pink-slime-local-news-outlets-nearly-triples-in-size.php

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All the stories are just exaggerated right-wing looks at the news. Lots of exaggerations and outright lies. As you can see from the list of the group's "other publications," they all have local-sounding names, but they're not actually based in any of these places.

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