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? --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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