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

*No Longer Newsworthy***

How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

*Christopher R. Martin***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/no-longer-newsworthy_*

"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 an important book on what is 
arguably the biggest single challenge facing the labor movement and 
American workers: their near-invisibility in the media and hence in 
public discussion."*—Philip Dine, author of /State of the Unions/*

"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/*//

"For US workers, journalism is broken. While coverage of working-class 
issues has become 'misunderstood and mostly invisible' in today's media, 
working-class anger has been growing, opening up the door for far-right 
news outlets and a right-wing populist president to pose as workers' 
only true defenders. No one has better laid out what has gone wrong with 
American journalistic coverage of the working class and how it helped 
lead to our current, disastrous political moment than Christopher R. 
Martin."*—Micah Uetricht, Jacobin magazine, author of /Strike for America/*

"/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*

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.

The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through /No 
Longer Newsworthy/ is a wakeup call about the critical role of the media 
in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and working-class 
readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting from the late 
1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as the mainstream 
media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business interests. When 
newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class readers as useless for 
their business model, the American worker became invisible. In /No 
Longer Newsworthy/, Martin covers this shift in focus, the loss of 
political voice for the working class, and the emergence of a more 
conservative media in the form of Christian television, talk radio, Fox 
News, and conservative websites.

Now, with our fractured society and news media, Martin offers the 
mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against right-wing 
media and once again embrace the working class as critical to its 
audience and its democratic function.

*Christopher R. Martin*is Professor of Digital Journalism and 
Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the 
award-winning author of Framed! Follow him on Twitter @chrismartin100


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