Unions: Sunday Shows Are Shutting Us Out

[cal04]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/unions-sunday-shows-shutting-out_n_825773.html

UPDATE: The Huffington Post has learned that in addition to Christie, "Meet the Press" has preliminarily booked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and "Fox News Sunday" has booked Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R). These bookings are not final and could still be changed. There are also still open slots for other guests on the shows.

WASHINGTON -- Though thousands of Americans have turned out this week to show solidarity with Wisconsin's public employees and oppose a threat to their collective bargaining rights, union officials say they have not been able to place a labor voice on this Sunday's editions of the weekly public-affairs TV shows. The shows' producers, they complain, are shutting out the workers' perspective.

A union official told The Huffington Post that when none of the Sunday shows' producers reached out to them to book a labor representative this week, several unions started to pitch the shows with affected workers and local and national leaders who they felt could discuss the protests. The official said the response from the shows was essentially "thanks, but no thanks."

"If you're a Sunday show and there are labor fights going on for two weeks, if you can just book ... Chris Christie, why would you actually go out and get somebody who is actually involved in this? That would be work!" snarked the official, adding, "Everybody's been pushing, and everybody's been shut down."

(As the one who posts these shows every week, thank you for finally saying something! This has been done for years!)

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[myrna minx]

2. That's because we need to hear the diverse views ranging from Mike Huckabee

and Scott Walker with Newt Gingrich for balance. They have to be fair and balanced after all. :eyes:

[murielm99]

3. We know more than ever that

WE have to be the media.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. It's about time for unions to start protesting the mainstream media

The main studios of these networks would be the place to protest. At some point, this naked exercise of pimping the propaganda of corporate interests must be protested against.

It is not surprising that these shows will not have union labor represented on their panels. Simply look at the advertisers of these shows. It is a laundry list of many of the very companies that have "acquired" our government.

[steve2470]

5. k&r nt

[City Lights]

6. The corporate media hoores shutting out unions? Say it ain't so!

Fook the corporate media up, down, and sideways.

:nuke:

[Poboy]

7. Reccamundo.

[Sonoman]

8. And it was all repukes, two Sundays back

Harking to their Masters' wishes.

Sonoman

[TBF]

9. They are giving us enough rope to hang them -

seriously do they really want 300,000,000 million workers in the streets? Assholes, keep it up and you might get it.

[Puregonzo1188]

10. US media is anti-labor. Has been since the 1800s and still is today.

No surprise here.

[Uncle Joe]

11. The corporate media is the "corporate media" for a reason, they believe in corporate supremacy.

To hell with the working people, average Americans, even small time business owners, they don't own the corporate media and they don't pay mega-bucks for commercials.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[Pisces]

12. Kick and recommend. This is crap.

[KurtNYC]

13. Hey it wouldn't be propaganda if they talked to Unions!

These Sunday shows have a job to do you know.

[MichiganVote]

14. Another "UN"reality show. I quit watching any of this stuff. Its all worthless.

[EC]

15. I hope the unions report this at the next union

meeting and at the protests. It's time to stop watching them. I've started watching movies on Sunday morning or cartoons again (was my fav thing to do on Sat. and Sun Mornings while a child and while my daughter was growing up). It sure is more pleasant than yelling at the TV.


Can't say I didn't see this coming. For the last 10 years and more very few Dems are asked to these shows anyway. I was hoping Christine A. would have changed that...I was wrong.


Maybe Gore and Olbermann will put together a week-end morning show along with an evening news line-up.

[Name removed]

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[luv_mykatz]

17. It is being called the Corporate Owned Media for a good reason.

Apparently, we have to work without the support of the Corporate Owned Media. What a surprise. :eyes:

And the Sunday shows have been the worst, for a very long time.

What is really sad? I hear from a Russian immigrant that at least the people knew that Pravda was propaganda.

I wish more people in our country would WAKE UP!

[WCGreen]

18. What else is new

[robdogbucky]

19. No surprise to me

I ask you, where is the "labor," section in the newspaper?

Next to the Business section? No

Next to the News section? No

Next to the Sports section? No

Next to the Weather section? No

Next to the Want Ads? (I'm sorry, I know there are no Want Ads for employment anymore, just a nostalgic reaction) No

After the Obituaries? No

Where then? Where is labor's voice?


Isn't labor important? I guess not as important as Business, News, Sports, Weather, or Obituaries.

And people wonder why the MSM does not cover labor?

It is like a poison word to media in this lovely Calvinist nightmare of a nation.




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[Better Believe It]

20. K & R

[cal04]

21. Update: Richard Trumka on Meet The Press

UPDATE: NBC just sent out its line-up for Sunday's "Meet the Press" and it does now include AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka, who will be part of a roundtable. Other guests are: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (R-Mo.), MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell and the Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/unions-sunday-shows-shutting-out_n_825773.html

[cal04]

23. After Progressive Pressure, Sunday Show Will Feature Labor Leader

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/24/mtp-labor-pressur/

Today, ThinkProgress and others noted that the Sunday morning news shows did not feature any labor movement leaders or members last week — and none had been booked for this weekend — despite the ongoing protests in a host of states. A Main Street Movement of workers, students, and lawmakers has come together to push back on conservatives attempting to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees, yet the Sunday shows hadn’t see fit to include any of their voices, instead opting for a slew of conservative commentators and Republican governors. However, ThinkProgress has learned that NBC’s Meet the Press today booked AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka for Sunday. We applaud NBC’s decision and encourage the other networks (ABC, CBS, Fox News, and CNN) to also give a voice to working people.

Will The Sunday Shows Ignore Labor For The Second Week In A Row?
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/24/sunday-show-labor/

PEW STUDY: Organized labor voices accounted for sources in only 2% of all the economy stories in 2009
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-labor-union-decline

No labor officials on Sunday shows this weekend?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/no_labor_officials_on_sunday_s.html

[Mojeoux]

25. Great to watch this all manifest in this thread.

Also, I am still asking......Are News Broadcasters ALL in a Union, Rush and Beck too. What is it, and do they have collective bargaining?
The camera people and the sound people, don't they have unions too?

[cal04]

26. I don't know much about this website, but it seems they are

AFTRA: The Union that Glenn, Rush, Sean et al Belong to
http://www.naplesnews.com/blogs/he-is-that-guy/2011/feb/23/union/

Statement of Support for Union Members in the Public Sector from AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon
http://www.aftra.com/E0136DCF757D43509BF4615634EE723C.htm

[xmas74]

28. Cleaver's not a Republican.

Just thought I'd clear that up.
http://www.house.gov/cleaver/Cleaver%20Green/index.shtml

[jillan]

22. I say we boycott the Sunday shows until they represent the working class.

[Canuckistanian]

24. Utterly predictable

I don't know why they even thought they had a chance....

[babylonsister]

27. Rec'd, and thanks as always. This is important!!! nt

[bbgrunt]

29. if it's not on the teevee, it's not real. DISGUSTING censorship.

[Kablooie]

30. TV execs like the idea of killing unions too. They want to encourage it.

Then they can pay employees less and use the savings to increase their own salaries.