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Catherine Connolly Wins: An Historic Victory for the Left in Ireland

Picture of Paul Murphy Paul Murphy Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The big lesson is that if the left unites and seeks to mobilise people, it can win. The dynamic of unity can create confidence and enthuse others to get involved. The question of a Left government once again comes increasingly centre stage.

Toward a New Political Journalism

Robert Edwards The King's Necktie
The “mainstream media” that is so often accused of being left-leaning is in fact painfully neutral and objective to a fault...that fault being an addiction to false equivalences and an inability and/or unwillingness to call a spade a spade.

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Both Sides Now: The Myth of Media Objectivity

Marissa Brostoff Bookforum
Objectivity may be tricky; fairness in reporting is not. The book author blasts the media for using a rhetoric of neutrality to marginalize insurgent POVs. Truth may be contingent on time and place, but leading news venues only serve power.

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Supreme Court Scrutiny of `Neutrality' Pacts Could Be Another Blow to Unions

Bruce Vail In These Times
The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it will accept a case for review next year on the use of labor-management "neutrality" agreements in union organizing campaigns. An anti-union decision from the high court would make labor organizing more difficult and threaten labor organizations at a national level, labor experts say.
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