{"id":629,"date":"2008-07-29T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2008\/07\/29\/layoffs-at-newspapers-and-the-squeeze-on-american-workers\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:15:56","slug":"layoffs-at-newspapers-and-the-squeeze-on-american-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2008\/07\/29\/layoffs-at-newspapers-and-the-squeeze-on-american-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs at Newspapers and the Squeeze on American Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of today&#8217;s Democracy Now!  about workers<sup>1<\/sup>: I) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2008\/7\/29\/newspapers_suffer_spate_of_layoffs_decline\" target=\"_blank\">layoffs at the newspapers<\/a> and II) a new book: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2008\/7\/29\/the_big_squeeze_steven_greenhouse_on\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I. The discussion of layoffs at the newspapers raised the question of whether bloggers aka citizen journalists can\/will fill the gap. <strong>Chris Hedges<\/strong>, senior fellow at the Nation Institute  is not optimistic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I could believe that if there was reporting on the internet. You know, most of the bloggers don\u2019t even pick up a phone, much less go out and report a story. Reporting a story, especially doing an investigative piece, is laborious, expensive, time-consuming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Linda Jue<\/strong>, Director of New Voices in Independent Journalism and the past president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, on the other hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I am witnessing, actually, in the Bay Area numerous new enterprises starting to come up, being formed actually by journalists, to find new business models that would be\u2014that will sustain very good journalism&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>II.<em> The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker<\/em>. Steven Greenhouse, labor reporter for the New York Times, discusses the plight of workers and the role of contemporary unions. He has some interesting remarks about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.changetowin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Change to Win<\/a>&#8221; coalition of 5 major unions that left the AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n<p>[More when DN! gets the transcript up.]<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>There is brief mention of more bank failures in the headlines. See next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of today&#8217;s Democracy Now! about workers1: I) layoffs at the newspapers and II) a new book: The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. I. The discussion of layoffs at the newspapers raised the question of whether bloggers aka citizen journalists can\/will fill the gap. Chris Hedges, senior fellow at the Nation Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dismal-excuse-for-a-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}