Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media
spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant
part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer
for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and
how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects
of it doing so.
The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through _No
Longer Newsworthy_ is a wakeup call about the critical role of the
media in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and
working-class readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting
from the late 1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as
the mainstream media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business
interests. When newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class
readers as useless for their business model, the American worker
became invisible. In _No Longer Newsworthy_, Martin covers this shift
in focus, the loss of political voice for the working class, and the
emergence of a more conservative media in the form of Christian
television, talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites.
Now, with our fractured society and news media, Martin offers the
mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against
right-wing media and once again embrace the working class as critical
to its audience and its democratic function.
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How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781501735271
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Cornell University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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