Hey POLITICO, What the F*** Is That Headline?

[Omaha Steve]

http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/06/11/hey-politico-what-the-f-is-that-headline-part-2/

Roughly one year ago we published a piece, “Hey POLITICO, What the F*** Is That Headline?” which assailed the presumably party-neutral site for a story claiming Mitt Romney “praised” labor despite his remarks centering on “union bosses” and “union CEOs.” It was a journalistic hatchet job of the most unacceptable sort and awakened me to POLITICO’s susceptibility to transparent partisanship.

Sadly, it happened again yesterday. POLITICO published a piece, “Tea party preps for other Big Labor state battles,” that reads more like a Tea Party press release than a “news article.”

Whether or not you agree with POLITICO’s assertions that “the tea party has seemingly matured since 2009? and that “National GOP operatives see the tea party efforts as a sign of what’s to come,” the authors’ reliance on tried-and-true anti-labor language reveals its actual intent. Case in point: the use of the term “Big Labor.”

Wikipedia describes the term as “almost always used in a negative or derisive sense.” It is widely accepted as conveying massive and/or corrupt money and Washington, DC influence unrelated to actual workers and their struggles. POLITICO, though, is undeterred by this common understanding. Rather, they are energized by it.

FULL story at link.

About the Author: Steve Cooper
Steve Cooper is the editor of We Party Patriots. He educates union members on the benefits of social media, offering instruction on engaging on Facebook and Twitter. When not ruining his posture and finger muscles through endless computer use, Cooper is an avid chef and musician. The Chopped Pork and Mustard Slaw pictured is his own.