NEWS LITERACY WHY NEWS MATTERS BY DUCHESS HARRIS JD PHD Core Library Cover image Freedom of the press is guaranteed by the First Amendment An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
CHAPTER ONE
THE POWER OF ONE NEWS STORY in the early 1900s Chicago Illinois was the center of the meat processing industry One part of the city came to be known as Packingtown As many as 12 million hogs and beef cattle were processed there each year Many workers were poor immigrants Women and children as young as 14 years old worked there too Life in Packingtown was hard The working conditions were terrible even dangerous Employees worked in dark and stuffy rooms that were stiflingly hot in summer and freezing cold in winter Many were Meatpackers prepare hog carcasses for processing at Armour's Packing Plant in Chicago in 1909
