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- From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:
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- During the 1990 national Greyhound strike, the New York Times was
- "the real media culprit," Gavrielle Gemma writes, "printing the
- company's side of the story on wages and union demands" and
- failing to report that Greyhound workers were making the same
- wages they had fifteen year earlier, that maintenance workers with
- seventeen years of experience made only $6.50 an hour, that the
- company was asking workers to pay the full cost of medical
- coverage, and that no worker had been able to join the pension
- plan since 1983. Instead, the Times ran an "unabashed puff piece
- on the Greyhound CEO" and "lies about the figures, giving as
- averages the salaries of drivers who work excessive overtime." The
- media role was clear: "to turn the public against the union in
- support of the company's positions" by denying the strikers'
- legitimate grievances, by portraying them (and only them) as
- violent, and by stressing the inconvenience of the strike to the
- public.
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- _The War on Labor and the Left.
- Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_
- By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton
- Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford
- ISBN 0-8133-1062-8 ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk)
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