Opinion: The Media Is Wasting Time In Iowa - The Most Important Election Of 2019 Is Happening In Tennessee
Corporate newsrooms flooded Iowa with reporters over the weekend to follow thetaking place there. But in Tennessee this week, I saw only one national news outlet, Reuters, showing up to cover perhaps the most consequential election taking place in the South this year.
If they prevail, it will mark the first time the UAW has successfully unionized a foreign-owned auto plant in the South, after more than three decades of trying. It would likely persuade cautious labor leaders to invest big in organizing the rapidly growing South, which has seen a boost in union support following a series ofThose strikes received glowing national media coverage — a rarity for the labor movement, where strikes and industrial action are typically overlooked by the press.
Striking teachers raised fundamental questions about American education that drove the positive coverage. Does every child deserve a good education, whether or not they live in a wealthy neighborhood? Are public schools centerpieces of local communities? “Those questions deserved to be on the front page,” Weingarten said. “And that created more momentum for the strikes themselves.”
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