What we learned about the economy this week https://t.co/eglI9ErmKm pic.twitter.com/wyrrnNfQUk
— The Hill (@thehill) February 24, 2023
We should probably act like this choice of a stock photo for the “economy” from bad national political website TheHill.com into some sort of major scandal. Like it’s definitely an affront to the principles of ethical journalism, right? We could probably do some research into those principles and come up with one pretty quickly. Maybe more. For all we know even all those ethics thingies.
But why go to the library and skim through a book on journalistic ethics when we could just accuse The Hill of colluding with the “BuddyBells” Taco Bell franchisee to gain an improper advantage in the local market for fast food employees, thereby depriving nearby McDonald’s and Wendy’s and even other Taco Bell franchisees of desperately needed help. That’s wrong, right?
Look, it’s definitely a major ethical breach. They could have just gone with a generic “HELP WANTED” sign in a window without a phone number, website, and email address of a Taco Bell franchisee’s hiring contact and we should turn that actually genuinely bizarre editorial decision into a totally overblown shitshow rife with all sorts of accusations. After all, we don’t like them and they don’t like us, so let’s do this. Big Taco Bell franchisee collusion scandal at The Hill!