Where Is The Media Coverage Of The Fast Food Workers’ Strike?

[Teamster Jeff]

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Since Wednesday, when the strikes began, neither CNN nor Fox News has even mentioned the fast food worker protests, according to a quick search of media monitoring site TV Eyes. MSNBC has discussed the strikes once, during a segment of All In With Chris Hayes.

It’s not that the channels haven’t discussed economic issues: For comparison’s sake, in the same time period, CNN mentioned the Dow on eight separate occasions, MSNBC on 23, and Fox News on 14. They have also managed to have dozens of discussions about fast food — particularly McDonald’s. But all were in reference to what Charles Murray — one of the men who rescued three kidnapped women in Ohio — was eating before his heroic act.

Cable news often fails to cover economic news as it relates to people’s lives. Every station was equally abysmal at discussing job-threatening sequestration cuts, though they spent a lot of time focusing on lines at airports or the discontinuation of White House tours.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/10/1993721/fast-food-workers-strike/

[limpyhobbler]

1. Charles Murray? She probably means Charles Ramsey.

He was eating some Big Macs when he heard the woman calling for help.

But shame on the media for ignoring this important story.