Haymarket Affair.... May Day, 1888

[nadinbrzezinski]

Now for that, if you care to actually look under the hood and explore the coverage... you will find something interesting. The Chicago Trib was the paper of record... the ESTABLISHMENT paper... in some ways not unlike FOX. It did push a... shall we say... corporate agenda.

On the other side you had a slew of workers papers, and the anarchist press... the anti corporatist agenda.

This was the norm for the US since oh foundation to oh about... oh 1950 or so. Yes, a few people trailed the blaze reporting from London... but it was Murrow and his people who created a whole new standard of news reporting. The one that matured with Cronkite, who for the record was a hard core conservative... not that you could ever tell.

The point is, today we have the paper of record... but for the most part the counter balance to that does not exist.

Chew on that... because those of us who still remember news... would like to go back to what was an anomalie in US History... and it is high time for the development of an alternate press... a worker's press, a people's press.

And that is not very popular... but whatever.

[madrchsod]

1. we win and lose some battles but the war is never over.....

tonight i thought about what america was when i was growing up in the 50`s....we have come so far even with the obstacles put in our way.

we have an alternate press and we are on it right now. i think back during the 60`s-no internet. i was writing an alternate press with a mimeograph machine. i`d have to drive a hundred miles to get alternative magazines and books...take heart thes kids do`t read papers or watch the msn news because they have the internet.

being in washington dc sort`s restored my faith in what it means to be an american.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. We still really don't have an alternate ptess

Amy goodman and the nation are from enough. We should consider mimeographs honestly.