FAIR Blog: BBC celebrates labo[u]r in history, NPR disses a progressive historian

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When Howard Zinn died late January 2010, American public radio network NPR invited far-right airhead David Horowitz to pile loaded negative language on Zinn.

Wednesday was the 25th anniversary of the end of the 1984-1985 British miners' strike. BBC Radio 2 (BBC is the British equivalent of PBS/NPR) dedicated an episode of its program Radio Ballads, "Ballad of the Miners' Strike", to this event.

h/t: Steve Rendall, FAIR Blog

Similarly, Jeff Cohen of FAIR noted that ABC and CNN usually ignored the poor conditions of American farm workers until the death of Cesar Chavez in 1993.

That's the "liberal media" at work for you.