from eve with a scoff

good progressive  intentions 
often start
something  like this 


" When it comes 
to reporting on critical issues
 facing working people......"

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like:


"the flight of jobs overseas,
 the security 
of the national retirement system, 
the destruction
 of the right to organize 
and join a union,
 declining job safety, 
 a safety net 
for the unemployed 
or underemployed
the situation is ...(horrible) " 

 "at best its even-handed  
which means
giving know-nothing critics 
(including our president) 
equal billing "
 
" As for covering workers' views
 during labor disputes-
            forget it."

" There is hardly a labor reporter
 left in America,
 so most labor stories 
are now covered by the business desk"

"In such a situation,
 it is no wonder 
that organized labor 
is being left out 
in the cold
 politically.
 No wonder that most Americans 
don't even really know 
what a labor union is.
 No wonder
 that in many people's minds,
 unions are seen 
as little more than gangs,
 or at best as just 
   "special interests" "

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some times 
as this time

the union donz
take a fair beating:

"Yet the union leadership 
continues to squander 
untold millions 
of dollars
 on publicity campaigns 
and publicity departments,
 trying to get 
its story told 
in this biased 
and uninterested media."


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never just gloomy 
there 
 comes the usual
   half baked
           flakey wakey
                       sky pie

as in :


" It's time to take 
at least some 
of that money 
and put it to much better use,
 by subsidizing 
the creation
 of an independent
 but pro-labor daily newspaper
-a publication 
that would have 
its own reporters in Washington, D.C.
, New York,
 and key labor areas
 like Detroit, St. Louis,
 Chicago, Los Angeles
 and San Francisco,
 and that would cover
 all the news 
in the country
 and the world 
from a perspective 
that takes working people
 and their viewpoints 
into account "

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having spilled hiz pet bed time fantasy
and 
perhaps  after
 a couple more
cupz of strong coffee
we get some  details 

"I  propose
 that such a paper
 be published on-line,
 not on paper. "

okay....

" SPEND the  money on
  a crack staff 
of reporters and editors."

sure absolutely
besides ...

" These days,
 working families 
for the most part
 have computers and online access,
 so there's really
 no need for paper."


so why not....

" use
  a mass list
    of union members'
 email em 
 a brief news summary 
of the day's headlines 
each morning 
as an alert message,
 with a link to the publication."

super 
and 
as to union financing...



" Having the seed money 
for such a daily news journal
 come from the labor movement
 would free the publication
 from the constraints 
that have sapped 
the will and integrity 
of the corporate press "

gettin down to justifying
the hard numbers...

" A few million dollars
 might seem like
 a lot of money 
to the unions"

read this zing hai two...


" but since 
  the many millions
 more spent on publicity 
for the most part 
just go into
 media office wastebaskets"
 right on bro...


" it's really 
not a big new expense
just a shifting 
of funds to a much more
 productive use."

naturally...

but then having reached the mountain top
here comes 
the ride down
the far side of the slope...

" The key to the success 
of such a publication
 would be its independence"

whooooopz 
give us yer dough pie cards
step back 
and let us rip....

let uz...

 "move way beyond 
the traditional captive labor media"

sure nuff ....

" and even be ready 
and able to write critically
 about the labor movement
 when necessary "

dum dee dum dum ddddduuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm

 sensing the need to scramble some...


 "If there were 
         not
 this independence
 the venture would be
 doomed from the start"

crash......

but not aware
 he/s now entered
the far more intricate 
and permissive  world 
 of complex numbers...

he breezes away as if
still doin it 
on 
   plain reals alone 

"As an independent,
 labor-funded daily,
  it could compel
 a renewal
 of the competing
 national corporate media"

really ?

yes 
 
the fuckin jaded pricks

 "would be forced 
to change 
or be exposed 
as biased 
or worse
captive 
of conservative politicians
 and corporate interests."

hi ho silver 
            away  ....

" I envision a newspaper
 that would be so relevant 
to American workers' lives,
 covering not just politics,
 economics and labor, 
but sports and entertainment too,
 that it would be read every day, 
replacing the daily paper 
in most households. "

 aahh
there's a scene

  homer 
      doin his daily
             mind -humpz
         over
            the E-word
                 stylings
                        
 of columnist 
         gilda blaze
        'the workers bugle's '
                     sizzlin
                       pure contact
                         sportz    chick.... 

   and what about
            the what ifz ?
 
the what if 
       way back when 
          we had
say  .....

"an aggressive 
and independent
 media voice
 during
  the 2002 run-up 
to the disastrous
 invasion of Iraq "

" or in the recent election"
or feature the diff

"r during  
   the coming battle
 over Social Security."

 shit why stop at the specific  stuff...

"' Imagine the impact 
it would have 
on progressive organizing 
                in general! "

yup
make's one leap
       with pure 
       klass  wrangler's joy 
                                 no?....


 of course 
the  final pitch
                 izzz......

urgency 

do it now now now 


"there is really
 no time,
 to wait.
 Too much has been lost 
already 
because
 of the lack 
of an honest media in America."

shit ya ...

" It's past time already
for a labor-oriented 
              daily newspaper."

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cowhands

tell me please

why does
 such
soulfully   
             cheery
           brightly   boyish 
                    cream puff dreamery

                           piss me off  so much ?

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