Labor Makes the News: Newspapers, Journalism, and Organized Labor, 1933–1955
研究1930年代工会运动爆发期间报纸对劳工的报道,发现出版商和记者对劳工运动反应多样,劳工官员利用报纸建立合法性,揭示了出版商、编辑工人和劳工领袖之间的社会政治、经济和职业目标互动。
Labor Makes the News examines newspaper coverage of organized labor during the burst of union activity that began in the early 1930s. For activists and sympathizers, it was an article of faith that newspapers were deliberately unfair. However, publishers and their employees responded to the labor movement with great diversity, in part because publishers recognized that many readers were union members. For reporters, covering labor tested the boundary between personal and political interests and the professional ideal of neutrality on news pages. While publicly condemning the press, labor officials used newspapers to establish their legitimacy and wage war against enemies. Examining the treatment of organized labor provides a window for viewing the interplay among the sociopolitical, economic, and occupational goals of the publisher, the editorial worker, and the labor leader.