re: Worldwide Protests Over Chiapas Massacre

[James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny thing. Yesterday, the traffic people on the radio said that a big
demonstration about Chiapas at the Westwood Federal Building near UCLA had
closed some freeway entrances and exits. Then my wife was delayed by about a
half-hour in driving my son home from near UCLA due to the traffic snarl.
But the Los Angeles TIMES, the local "newspaper of record" tells us that
nothing happened at all! It's all down the memory hole at the LAT.

This seems further evidence of the LAT's rapid rightward run, as business
considerations dominate editorial policy to a much greater extent under the
new regime (which recently endorsed "privatization" of Social Security and
hired a Clarence Thomas Affirmative Action political cartoonist, a
rightwinger with a conveniently hispanic surname).

Meanwhile, yours truly did a "public access" TV stint on globalization
messing up labor (with Harry & Joanne Bernstein plus David Johnson of the
United Electrical workers union; Harry's the retired labor columnist at the
LAT). It's not available unless you get Century Cable and I don't know when
it will be broadcast.

we need to solve the problem of the media.

in pen-l solidarity,

Jim Devine