File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9708, message 264


Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 13:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott McLemee <mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-I: Brown-bagging at the Monthly Review


On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:

> 2) Bourgeois coverage of the strike:
> There's been a noticeable shift to the left in the coverage of the strike,
> especially at the New York Times. Harry suggests that the Times is
> extremely sensitive to changing moods in the population and will adapt to
> the right or left to keep pace with the change.

Yeah, this has been conspicuous, and not just in the TIMES.  What is 
going on here?  A small segment of academia has been organizing itself as a 
sort of professorial auxilary to the labor movement, which isn't so 
strange.  But after about one week of mass media coverage stressing how 
inconvenience-making the UPS strike was, suddenly there is this surge of 
favorable coverage.  What's the frequency, Kenneth?


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