Media Criticize Union Insurgents

July 27, 2005 - 2:00pm

Media Criticize Union Insurgents
Networks, major newspapers lament departure of dissidents from AFL-CIO while pro-union voices dominate coverage.

By Amy Menefee [1]
July 27, 2005

Union members are only 12 percent of U.S. workers, but media coverage of the recent AFL-CIO split hailed unions as the voice of working families and bemoaned the tragedy of a divide between them. An analysis of media coverage of the separation from July 23 through July 27 found the media erroneously referring to unions as representative of working families.

Publication: News [2]

Division: MRC Business [3]

Tags: MediaMalpractice [4], personalaccounts [5], GasPrices [6], biasedaccounts [7], MorganSpurlock [8], obesity [9], Mercury [10], Tax&Spin [11], FairTax [12], Wal-Mart [13], FX [14], DiscoveryChannel [15], NBC [16], abc [17], cbs [18], SocialSecurity [19], runawaylitigation [20], GlobalWarming [21], ClimateChange [22], CharlesSimpson [23], AmyMenefee [24], DanGainor [25], HermanCain [26], news [27], MediaRealityCheck [28], FreeMarket [29], videos [30], taxes [31], newsbias [32], networknews [33], mediawatchdog [34], lbrentbozell [35], bozell [36], BrentBozell [37], LiberalBias [38], MediaResearchCenter [39], Cyberalert [40], MediaBias [41], bias [42], media [43], conservative [44], BusinessandMediaInstitute [45], SupersizedBias [46]

Links:
[1] mailto:amenefee@mediaresearch.org?subject=Your BMI story
[2] http://archive2.mrc.org/news
[3] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/mrc-business
[4] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mediamalpractice
[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/personalaccounts
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/gasprices
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/biasedaccounts
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/morganspurlock
[9] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/obesity
[10] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mercury
[11] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/taxspin
[12] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/fairtax
[13] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/wal-mart
[14] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/fx
[15] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/discoverychannel
[16] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/nbc
[17] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/abc
[18] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/cbs
[19] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/socialsecurity
[20] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/runawaylitigation
[21] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/globalwarming
[22] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/climatechange
[23] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/charlessimpson
[24] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/amymenefee
[25] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/dangainor
[26] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/hermancain
[27] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/news
[28] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mediarealitycheck
[29] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/freemarket
[30] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/videos
[31] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/taxes
[32] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newsbias
[33] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/networknews
[34] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mediawatchdog
[35] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/lbrentbozell-0
[36] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/bozell
[37] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/brentbozell
[38] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/liberalbias-0
[39] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mediaresearchcenter
[40] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/cyberalert
[41] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/mediabias
[42] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/bias
[43] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/media
[44] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/conservative
[45] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/businessandmediainstitute-0
[46] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/supersizedbias
[47] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org