To the Corporate Media, Workers May as Well Not Exist
Working-class people are systematically left out of mainstream media coverage. So the stories we get are incomplete, skewed, or even complete distortions of reality.
Ann Larson is a contributor to the anthology Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country, edited by Alissa Quart and David Wallis, published by Haymarket Books in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Working-class people are systematically left out of mainstream media coverage. So the stories we get are incomplete, skewed, or even complete distortions of reality.
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