Perhaps the best indication of how entrenched the problem has become is that a robust network of military-adjacent charitable organizations such as the Armed Services YMCA and Blue Star Families has developed an infrastructure of food banks near most major domestic bases. “They were getting ready to turn off his electricity because he couldn’t pay his bills,” she said. She recalls being a young officer in Texas when she was approached by a new private with a baby. Louis and an Army veteran, said the problem cuts across all branches of the military. Meredith Knopp, CEO of a food bank in St. If you’re worried about whether or not your kid gets dinner tonight?” How can you focus on carrying out the mission and defending our democracy. “We’re the mightiest military on the face of the earth and yet those who are on the lower rung of our military ranks are - if they are married and have a child or two– they’re hungry. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq. “It’s one of these things that the American people don’t know about, but it’s a matter of course among military members. The problem is exacerbated by an obscure Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps. Also, the internal military culture of self-sufficiency leaves many reluctant to speak about their difficulties, for fear they will be regarded as irresponsible. In addition to modest pay for junior enlisted ranks, the frequent moves inherent to military life make it difficult for military spouses to find steady work. “You know what you’re signing up for in the military,” Bohannon said, after emerging from a drive-thru food distribution organized by the local Armed Services YMCA branch. “It is what it is,” said James Bohannon, 34, a Naval E4 (petty officer third class) in San Diego who relies on food assistance to keep his two daughters fed. The group estimates that 29% of troops in the most junior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year. “This should be the cause of deep embarrassment.” “It’s a shocking truth that’s known to many food banks across the United States,” Vince Hall, Feeding America’s government relations officer, said. But activists say it has existed for years and primarily affects junior-level enlisted service members - ranks E1 to E4 in military parlance - with children. The exact scope of the problem is a topic of debate, due to a lack of formal study. That estimate by Feeding America, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, underscores how long-term food insecurity has extended into every aspect of American life, including the military. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. Commercial media disseminate negative information about advertisers only to the extent required to keep customers.(AP) - It’s a hidden crisis that has existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.
Of course, a commercial media organization could lose advertising if they had a media feeding frenzy that affected an advertisers business: Advertisers dont want to feed mouths that bite them, and have been known to modify where they spend their advertising budget accordingly. The availability cascade helps explain the human psychology behind a media feeding frenzy. Sacco claimed that media outlets try to organize their reporting as much as possible around themes to help them amortize over several reports the work required to educate a journalist to the point where s/he can discuss a subject intelligently. unlike the Uniform Crime Reports UCR, the NCVS is not affected by changes in peoples willingness to report crimes to law enforcement and in the willingness of law enforcement to forward UCRs to the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI for inclusion in national summaries. Other examples include media coverage of "crime waves" that often drive changes in criminal law to address problems that do not appear in the National Crime Victimization Survey NCVS, the most reliable indicator of actual crime in the U.S. The metaphor, drawing an analogy with feeding frenzies of groups of animals, was popularized by Larry Sabatos book Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism and American Politics. A media feeding frenzy is intense media coverage of a story of great interest to the public.
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