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There’s a magical day that comes once each year when every news outlet publishes a story or two about workers and the labor movement. Then we all go to bed, wake up the next morning, and return to a world where unions and workers are hardly noticed at all.
The lack of attention paid to labor issues — the overwhelming majority of news outlets lack a single full-time labor reporter — has disastrous results, particularly for workers in the anti-union South. According to research by Central Iowa Media Studies Professor Chris Martin, there are “just six full-time labor reporters in the top 25 newspapers across the US, none in network or cable news, none at NPR or PBS, and just a few at digital news organizations and magazines on the left.”