the media’s GARBAGE attempt at covering the labor movement

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CNN and other mainstream news are engaging in working class poverty porn instead of exposing corporate corruption and greed.

This week on 51/49, James discusses why the mainstream media is so terrible at covering labor and worker's rights issues, specifically diving into the ways in which mainstream media deliberately, or at the very least, inadvertently mischaracterizes or mis-frames labor issues, unions, and workers' rights.

0:00 How the Media Abandoned the Working Class
3:01 The Media's Obsession with Identity Politics
4:51 Media Ignores Corporate Greed and Corruption
5:51 How the Media Gaslights Workers and Sow Division

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