No Labor Officials Scheduled (Thus Far) to Be on Any of the Sunday Talk Shows
February 24, 2011 at 3:45 PM Leave a comment
UPDATED below.
So hey, what was that again about the “liberal media?”
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I tend not to get into the business of questioning the guest choices made by the Sunday shows. But if there were ever a time the networks would want to book labor officials to appear, you’d think it would be now. The Wisconsin standoff is the most important domestic political story in the country right now, and as many commentators at those same networks have pointed out, both sides view this battle as ground zero in a national war that may determine the fate of organized labor in America.
But labor officials are beginning to fear that none of them will be invited on this weekend to give voice to the labor point of view. This, even as tough-talking anti-union governor Chris Christie is set to do a major appearance on CBS on Sunday.
One AFL-CIO official tells me that reps for the AFL-CIO and other unions reached out to all the big three network shows — ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, and CBS’ Face the Nation — to ask if they would invite on any labor officials. Thus far the answer has been cool to indifferent, the official says.
It is so true that average working Americans don’t have a voice on the corporate media — even on the “public affairs” shows.
UPDATED: After an afternoon of outrage, MTP adds Richard Trumka to its Sunday line up.
Now we wait to see what CBS, ABC, Fox and CNN do.
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