8/14/2004

The ILCA asks where the corporate media are on the NLRB's threat to CCN organizing: That the right to organize has come under a major new threat ought, in and of itself, to be a major story in the media. But this story is also closely connected to the current presidential campaign, itself the biggest media story at the moment...While a Nexis search for "Catherine Zeta-Jones" turns up 957 articles during the past 30 days, a search for NLRB and "card check" turns up 55 articles during the past 60 days. Of these, many address particular union organizing drives rather than the NLRB's general review of card check, several are letters to editors, and several more are repeats of the same articles. The unique articles squarely addressing the issue are few and generally very short in length. This search found no articles at all from most major newspapers, and short articles on inside pages of business sections from a handful of others. While this search found nothing from the New York Times, the Times on July 4 did mention Kerry's support for card check (without mentioning the NLRB) deep in an article claiming that the U.S. economy is doing well and that Kerry's health care plan is expensive.

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