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[Commlist] New book: No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

Tue May 21 09:04:54 GMT 2019






No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class is now available from Cornell University Press http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106872060

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so.

Reviews:
"Insightful.... At once an important work of Trump-era criticism and an urgently needed condemnation of a media culture that persistently erases and misrepresents the lives and concerns of America's diverse working-class majority." - Jacobin

"I read Christopher R. Martin's No Longer Newsworthy with great pleasure. This book is absolutely fresh and original, and insightful. Martin writes with a mildly smart-ass edge that adds to the attention-grabbing nature of his work." - Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University, Chicago, author of Striking Steel

"Christopher R. Martin has produced an important and powerfully argued intervention into a media conversation that has for too-long ignored the actual existing conditions of working people in the United States." - Eric Alterman, Brooklyn College, Nation media columnist, author of What Liberal Media?

"No Longer Newsworthy is a must-read for anyone concerned with the state of America in the age of Trump. Christopher R. Martin brilliantly demonstrates the flawed presentation and analysis of working-class life and concerns in the mainstream media, and the problems this foments in politics. This is a fabulous book, ideal for undergrads and the general public." - Robert McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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