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Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media (ILR Press Book)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.880973
EAN: 9780801488870
ISBN: 0801488877
Label: Cornell University Press
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2003-12
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Studio: Cornell University Press
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Christopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put the labor movement in a bad light even while avoiding the appearance of bias. Martin has found that the news media construct "common ground" narratives between labor and management positions by reporting on labor relations from a consumer perspective.
Martin identifies five central storytelling frames using this consumer orientation that repeatedly emerged in the news media coverage of major labor stories in the 1990s: the 199194 shutdown of the General Motors Willow Run Assembly Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan; the 1993 American Airlines flight attendant strike; the 199495 Major League Baseball strike, the 1997 United Parcel Service strike, and the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organizations conference in Seattle.
In Martins view, the news medias consumer "take" on the labor movement has the effect of submerging issues of citizenship, political activity, and class relations, and elevating issues of consumption and the myth of a class-free America. Instead of facilitating a public sphere, the democratic ideal in which the public can engage in discovery and rational-critical debate, Martin says, news organizations have fostered a consumer sphere, in which public discourse and action is defined in terms of consumer intereststhe impact of strikes, lock-outs, shut-downs, and protests on the general consumer economy and the price, quality, and availability of things such as automobiles, airline flights, and baseball tickets.
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Rating:  - Critical Analysis: Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media
The purpose of Martin's book is to inform people of the politics of work and to inform people that unions are not just, "belligerent organizations that protect lazy, unproductive workers". It could be read by anyone, however; it is aimed toward people who have developed a biased opinion due to the media and therefore, the book is meant to inform and persuade. This book would also be suitable for people who do not know a lot about labor unions because Martin explains what they are, not just the ... Read More
Rating:  - Gets Inside Reporters' Heads
"Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media," by Christopher Martin.
Reviewed by David Swanson
May 27, 2004
I didn't need to be told that the corporate media do a horrendous job of covering organized labor. What this book tells us that I have not seen analyzed so well elsewhere is what the thought processes look like that lead to this horrendous coverage.
It's simple enough to observe that the media support capital and work against the concerns of workers. ... Read More
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