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sarahlee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 05:47 PM
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MEDIA OUTLETS REFUSE UNION ADVERTISING
Major corporate media outlets often reject advertising from labor unions. This means that the same outlets that will not cover labor for free, in many cases will not even sell working people 60 seconds of the public's airwaves for hard-earned money.

http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1158


SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW LABOR MEDIA FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY
By Howard Kling, ILCA Vice President
Part of the ILCA's Building Labor Media series
Brother unionist, have you ever thought of the influence of the press?

http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1156

EXECUTIVE EXCESS, WORKER DISTRESS: THE LINK OUR MEDIA SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORE
By Sam Pizzigati, ILCA Associate Member
Few Americans, this past Thanksgiving, had more reason to feel thankful than Terry Semel, the chief executive of Yahoo, the Internet search engine company.

http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1155

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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 06:00 PM
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1. shouldn't surprise us though.
Anything that supports the collective good isn't likely to be supported by the cheerleaders of private greed. I mean it's commie conspiracy to support the collective good isn't it? (ignore my sarcastic rhetoric)

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InvisibleBallots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 08:29 PM
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2. we need Union TV
The AFL-CIO needs to get some enterprising media grad students to produce union programming.
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