labor/media

[John Halle]

> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> >The UAW monthly
> >magazine is actually not too bad
>
> - -Really? You mean Solidarity? Aside from the financial statements,
> - -with their mysterious $1 billion in assets, I find it mainly a
> - -snooze. Maybe I'm spoiled by Vanity Fair.
>
> And neither LBO nor Vanity Fair is particularly aimed at the average UAW
> member.
>

Why even discuss print media? Virtually no one gets their news from them
anymore.

What's needed is a labor presence on electronic media, TV preferably but
also radio, which is why I mentioned Hightower.  If the AFL played its
cards right they could have made him the pro-labor Limbaugh.  I'm curious
why they dumped him, as they have seemed to

Organized labor also should have strongly opposed the telecommunications
bill which guaranteed corporations stranglehold on the media, which
they use to screw labor-now more than ever.

Did Sweeney et. al. even make a peep about it?

John