Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?

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Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery. Friday 20 July 2012 Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media? Amy Dean, Truthout: "I spoke with [Barbara] Ehrenreich about this crisis of economic insecurity, about the invisibility of working people in the mainstream media and about the current state of journalism. That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media - even in times of economic downturn - is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the American news landscape. Given this, I asked Ehrenreich if she thought this problem has been a constant, or if has it gotten worse in recent years." Read the Article Twelve Killed in Shooting at Colorado Theater Michael S. Schmidt, Timothy Williams and J. 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'Twilight of the Social' unfolds over an introduction and five chapters that each read like short thematic essays." Read the Article Police Kill Suspect; Occupy SF Activists Falsely Linked J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "Once again, the media have ... falsely insinuated that Occupy was somehow involved in a killing. A San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officer shot a 32-year-old Oakland man, Pralith Pralourng, to death, garnered articles from Bay Area media sources consisting of little more than the account offered by SFPD Chief Greg Suhr. In fact, the only way Occupy SF was involved in the shooting was by beating Huffington Post and the rest of the press to the scene." 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Read the Article Paul Krugman | Why Iceland Is a Success Story Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The Council on Foreign Relations people take me to task in a blog post titled '"Iceland's Post-Crisis Miracle" Revisited' for measuring economic performance in Iceland and the Baltics relative to the pre-crisis peak, which they suggest is some kind of scam. Why not measure relative to the post-crisis trough, under which the Baltics look better? So let's try this slowly." Read the Article The Problem Isn't Outsourcing. It's that the Prosperity of Big Business Has Become Disconnected From the Well-Being of Most Americans Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The American economy has moved way beyond outsourcing abroad or even 'in-sourcing.' Most big companies headquartered in America don't send jobs overseas and don't bring jobs here from abroad. That's because most are no longer really 'American' companies. They've become global networks that design, make, buy, and sell things wherever around the world it's most profitable for them to do so." Read the Article Migration and Racism: A Southern European Perspective Peter Mayo, Truthout: "The Mediterranean has become a hotbed of human trafficking and carnage resulting from desperate attempts by people from Africa to flee famine, civil wars and trade their belongings to trust their luck in crossing over to Europe in pursuit of a better life. Migration has, however, been a constant characteristic of this region of the world which has constantly raised a series of issues concerning cultural hybridization and the way different people are represented, as well as different forms of racism based on cultural and historical ignorance." 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