Re: Media Coverage of Striking Workers

We are ill-served by our news media. Today all of the tv news outlines
and the vast majority of the major print newspapers are controlled by
large corporations. For these corporations profits is the bottom line;
that means you don't anger potential advertisers by adverse news
coverage. The US media has grown into an ideal of supposedly unbiased
reporting (although the Machinations that occur in the back room
before being put before the public tends to censure this supposedly
unbias reporting. What we need is "biased" reporting such as is found
in the European media, e.g. London's papers. That way when we view a
broadcast or pick up a paper we know for certain what it's tilt will
be toward -- the government, the people, neo-conservatives, liberals,
greens, etc. That is what Murdoch is doing with the Fox News Channel.
Since I have a liberal leaning I know not watch Fox News, but unlike
the conservatives I don't have a channel or paper (except perhaps the
NY Times) that I know will present me with a consistent liberal slant
to what is happening in the US and beyond.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> This happens EVERY single time that there is a strike, the corporate
> controlled right-winged news media chooses to ignore the reason why
> workers are going on strike, and focuses instead on the disruption this
> is causing to consumers.  This is a carefully calculated strategy to
> drive a wedge between the striking workers and the general public.  
>              
> One of the very few exceptions to this rule is when a few years ago, UPS
> workers went on strike, the general public was largely supportive,
> because everyone understood the concept of the "part-timing of America".
> UPS management was seeking to reduce the number of full time workers,
> and replace them with more workers on a part time basis, in order to
> avoid having to pay full time benefits.  This exploitation of the worker
> was a happening at a time when UPS's profits were shooting thru the
> stratosphere.  The UPS strike was eventually successful, because no
> matter what angle the corporate controlled media presented on this
> story, the public sided with the workers.  And we had a pro-Union
> President back then, Bill Clinton.   
>         
> In the latest news, Grocery and Municipal workers have gone on strikes
> in Southern California.  The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post,
> among other papers, have said very little about what the issues are that
> have driven the workers to go on strike, they have instead focused on
> the inconvenience to shoppers as well as the disruption to management.         
> Some of the striking Grocery workers are only making $6.75 an hour, and
> all they are asking for is a .50 cent raise, plus a continuation of
> their health benefits.  Subsidiaries of Safeway, Albertson and Ralph's,
> among others, are not only refusing to give them any raises, but they
> are actually threatening to take away the workers' health coverage.      
>        
> Media Critic Eric Alterman recently wrote a column, in which he debunked
> the theory that any such thing as a Liberal media exists any more, he
> noted that even the so called "Liberal" media icons of PBS and NPR, they
> have shows titled "Money Line", and "Market Place".  He opined that if
> we really had a "Liberal" media, then they would have shows called
> "Labor Line" and "Workers' Place"?   
>          
> Abel Malcolm
> http://www.mediawhoresonline.com
> 
> "In the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be
> found that truth is still mightier than the sword":
> 
> Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Graduated from West Point at the top of his
> class, then served brilliantly in WW1, WW2 & the Korean war)
> 
> Educate yourself and go to these links: 
> 
> http://www.buzzflash.com & http://www.moveon.org &
> http://www.veteransforpeace.org & http://www.salon.com &
> http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/LiberalFAQ.htm &
> http://www.barbrastreisand.com