There’s
a coincidental, but illuminating, confluence of “media mythology” stories at
the moment. The first concerns a series of claims by wait staff that hateful,
bigoted customers stiffed them for tips and wrote awful things on the receipt.
First there was a waitress at a Red Lobster in Tennessee who claimed her
customer wrote the N-word on a receipt, a story that gained national attention
and led to her collecting over $10,000 in donations from sympathetic and/or
outraged people across the country. Her story is almost certainly a hoax, based on handwriting analysis, the
testimony of the allegedly offensive customer, and other data…..To Read More…..
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