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- From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:
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- The newspaper owner, Liegbling writes, "is a rather large employer of
- labor," is "forced to deal with unions in all department of his
- enterprise, and is as unlikely as any other employer to be on their
- side"
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- ...Most important is the general climate of opinion created by the
- [corporate] media: good news about business and bad news, or more
- often no news at all, about labor. Typically, the media slight news
- about corporate crimes (or bury it in drab business pages) and give
- prominence to union misdeeds; they celebrate business leaders and
- commit labor leaders to limbo or worse. In recent times, the media
- have withdrawn reporters from labor beats, so that labor news is
- either blacked out or distorted by reporters unfamiliar with
- the labor scene.
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- In a 1939 book, New Deal "brain truster" Harold Ickes claimed that the
- press's lack of sympathy for unionism ranged "from the polite
- unfriendliness of the dignified New York Times to the vociferous
- hostility of the reactionary Los Angeles Times"
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- From:
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- _The War on Labor and the Left.
- Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_
- By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton
- Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford
- ISBN 0-8133-1062-8 ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk)
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