No longer newsworthy?

<p>Why did so many working-class Americans desert the traditional news media in the 1990s in favor of Fox News, talk radio and Christian broadcasting? It's a complicated question, but Christopher Martin thinks he knows why. Heartland Labor Forum host Judy Ancel talks about media coverage of labor with Martin, author of  No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class.</p> <p>Plus Florence Reece and Rebel Diaz ask Which Side Are You On? and this week’s Labor History in 2. Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email <a href='mailto:laborhistorytoday@gmail.com'>laborhistorytoday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. A longer version of the Christopher Martin interview first aired on the <a href='https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/cuba-how-socialists-fight-a-pandemic-christopher-martin-no-longer-newsworthy-2/'>Heartland Labor Forum</a> radio show. You’ll find more <a href='https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/'>Labor History in 2:00</a> here.</p>