Commentary:
The largest, most obvious lie in this article is where a McDonald's vice president says staffing won't be reduced as McDonald's adds automated order-taking machines, robotic french-fry cookers, and "vertical grill" conveyer belts.
Has the article's author never been behind the counter at a McDonald's, or never known anyone who's ever worked there? Or is he simply writing PR?
Companies like McDonald's are always, ALWAYS looking to reduce labor costs. This is not "advanced" economics, it's basic.
Anyone who imagines that McDonald's executives conceived and developed these devices primarily to improve customer service or to improve kitchen safety has no business writing about business in a major metropolitan newspaper.
When the media simply quotes a bald-faced lie without challenging it, the media is in on the lie.
Whether it's war or McDonald's, it's shoddy journalism: no different than quoting Bush and Cheney day after day, month after month claiming that the occupation of Iraq is a keystone in America's war on terrorism, or that Saddam Hussein had something to do with Sept. 11.
When obvious bull[] is quoted, unchallenged, as if it's true, this is simply laying on another layer of bull[].
In printing this article under its original headline ("Kiosks make fast food faster") and reporting corporate executives' positions without questioning such utter bull, the Chicago Tribune is flat-out lying to its readers.
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