Political Scientist Michael Parenti catalogued seven generalizations about the way the news media create anti-union messaging--from painting workers as greedy, to omitting the salary of management or depicting public officials (like Mayor Nutter) as neutral. Using this lens to dissect the coverage of the SEPTA strike, it becomes clear [...]
08:19 Just spent a month's salary on having half our roof replaced ... ugh. #Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter ' [...] Iowa Governor Chet Culver's campaign started running its second television commercial yesterday:
Like the commercial Culver ran last month, this ad emphasizes that the governor cut spending and his own salary in order to balance the state budget during this recession without raising taxes. I think the ad is [...]
