media/labor

[Justin Schwartz]

A friend of mine, who is not bland or bought off, used to edit a sort of 
newspaper for the UAW, which has since folded for what he tells me was 
business reasons. I must have seen it, but can't recall it. Did anyone? And 
why doesn't labor run a newspaper--is it because it couldn't keep its hands 
off it? Because it lacks business sense? Because it is afraid of losing its 
shirt? Any ideas? --jks


>
>  > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:05:18 -0500
> > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > Subject: Re: media/labor
> >
> >
> > Ever read any union publications? God, do they suck. A conservative
> > undemocratic culture produces deadly awful journalism. They should
> > just give lots of money to good journalists and editors, hands off!
> >
>
>You mean, "leave it to the private sector?" Sometimes I wonder how far
>you've gotten from the Party of the Right.
>
>In any case, union publications suck not by virtue of being union
>publications but because they reflect the bland (possibly bought-off)
>conformity of the leadership.
>
>The exception seems to be the AFL's sponsorship of Hightower, though I
>don't know how much help they have been recently.  (According to his
>website, his talk show is now off the air.)  In any case, this is the kind
>of thing they should be doing more of, but probably won't.
>
>
>John
>

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