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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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Sociologie, société et politique

USA

Industrial relations

Social class

Media studies

History of the Americas

États-Unis

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501735264
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	14 Mo

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NO LONGER NEWSWORTHY

How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

Christopher R. Martin

ILR Press An imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Martin, Christopher R., author. Title: No longer newsworthy : how the mainstream media abandoned the working class / Christopher Martin. Description: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2018045179 (print) | LCCN 2018047961 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501735264 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501735271 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501735257 | ISBN 9781501735257 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Working class—Press coverage—United States. | Industrial relations—Press coverage—United States. | Labor unions and mass media—United States. | Journalism—Social aspects—United States. | Journalism—Political aspects—United States. Classiﬁcation: LCC HD8066 (ebook) | LCC HD8066. M188 2019 (print) | DDC 070.4/493055620973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045179

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Contents

Introduction 1. Trump, Carrier, and the Invisible Worker 2. The Rise and Fall of Labor Reporting

3. The News Media’s Shift to Upscale Audiences 4. The Changing News Narrative about Workers 5. Workers and Political Voice 6. “Job Killers” in the News 7. Rethinking News about US Workers

Acknowledgments Notes Index

1 20 47 69 109 133 163 180

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