News Brief: As UPS Strike “Looms,” Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as “Threat” to “The Economy”
Added 2023-07-05 14:30:07 +0000 UTCIn this public News Brief, we break down media coverage of the potential UPS strike––and the trend more broadly in labor coverage––that paints a strike as something that harms "the consumer" or "the economy" rather than what it is: the only thing that gives workers any power.
Our guest is writer and media analyst Teddy Ostrow.
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Guest
Teddy Ostrow (@teddyostrow) is a journalist from Brooklyn covering labor and economics. He is the host of The Upsurge podcast and his work has appeared in Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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Show Notes
UPS Workers Might Revitalize Labor—if Corporate Media Skip the Script
Teddy Ostrow | April 13, 2023 | FAIR
Media Frames UPS Strike as Harming You, the “Consumer” and Protagonist of Reality
Adam Johnson | June 28, 2023 | The Column
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Transcript
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
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