No Longer Newsworthy (eBook)

How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

Christopher R. Martin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
272 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3527-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed upscale consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so. The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through No Longer Newsworthy is a wakeup call about the critical role of the media in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and working-class readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting from the late 1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as the mainstream media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business interests. When newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class readers as useless for their business model, the American worker became invisible. In No Longer Newsworthy, Martin covers this shift in focus, the loss of political voice for the working class, and the emergence of a more conservative media in the form of Christian television, talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites. Now, with our fractured society and news media, Martin offers the mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against right-wing media and once again embrace the working class as critical to its audience and its democratic function.

Autor

Christopher R. Martin is Professor of Digital Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the award-winning author of Framed! Follow him on X @chrismartin100

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Trump, Carrier, and the Invisible Worker
2. The Rise and Fall of Labor Reporting
3. The News Media's Shift to Upscale Audiences
4. The Changing News Narrative about Workers
5. Workers and Political Voice
6. "Job Killers" in the News
7. Rethinking News about US Workers
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 45 b&w halftones, 11 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: American working class, mainstream media, labor, conservative media, labor unions, consumer and business interests
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-3527-6 / 1501735276
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3527-1 / 9781501735271