Tag Archives: Journalism

Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong

Posted on March 14, 2016 by

Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S.  But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this “demographic” among political reporters and operatives, and as a result, also among the millions of us … Continue reading →

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The Incredibly Shrinking Working Class? The View from the “Professional” Bubble

Posted on June 24, 2013 by

In a semi-sympathetic article about unions organizing professional workers, a Chicago Tribune/Los Angeles Times reporter last month provided the following, colossally wrong, picture of American workers: “Professionals account for 62 percent of the U.S. workforce, up from 15 percent in … Continue reading →

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Working Labor Back into the News

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

In her last post, CWCS affiliate Denise Narcisse looked at the Pew Center’s latest research on the digital divide in America and noted the ways in which digital deprivation for poorer and working-class families amounts to a form of social … Continue reading →

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Working-Class Journalism: A Model for Teaching

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Among seemingly endless reports, studies and speculations that have almost unanimously heralded the death of the newspaper, the Columbia Journalism Review’s recent study stands out as both incisive and constructive for its detailed summation of the conditions that have caused … Continue reading →

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Education, Business, and Perpetuating the Class Hierarchy

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

In our last blog, we noted the increasing absence of working-class writers from the Journalism profession, due in part to the proliferation of the unpaid internship as the requisite for a career in the field. While the financial consequences of … Continue reading →

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The Political Parabola, the Media, and the Direction of Working-Class Populism

Posted on October 12, 2009 by

Media pundits regularly describe American politics in terms of a spectrum, from far right to far left.  It’s time to recognize that this simplistic model has lost some of its explanatory value. It’s convenient, but it doesn’t adequately describe what … Continue reading →

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