European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 4, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7ordinary worker ignored by press study says Washington up a the lives of the nations 100 million working men and women Are routinely a ignored marginalized or inaccurately portrayed by the major newspapers and television networks a study said sunday. The study by the Liberal oriented fairness amp accuracy in reporting examined major National newspapers such As the new York times the Washington Post the Wall Street journal and the los Angeles times. Also studied were the four major television networks a Abc lbs can and Abc a and pcs the non commercial Public broadcasting service. According to the study conducted by Jonathan Tasini in 1989 nightly network news programs devoted about 2.3 percent of their coverage to workers issues a including child care the minimum wage and workplace safety. Even less of that time a 1.2 percent a was devoted to . Unions and if not for the strike at Eastern airlines coverage of the american labor movement would have been a undetectable a the study said. The study was done before the strike at greyhound bus line. At the same time the study found the disappearing image of the labor move ment is accompanied by a Boom in corporate oriented news programs such As Public televisions three regular shows a a nightly business report a a Madam Smiths Money world a and a Wall Street can offers a a regular a Money line show and regular a business desk updates. Neither network offers a labor show. The study is the second report in recent months to criticize pcs programming for its Lack of attention to american workers. The first by the City University of new York committee for cultural studies and made in .a. Productions found pcs prime time allotted to american workers a including drama documentary and talk shows a averaged Only 20 minutes a month. Pcs has defended its record saying Many pcs programs in recent years a directly address the lives of Blue Collar pcs president Bruce Christensen recently told United steelworkers president Lynn Williams that the network a remains committed to distributing labor oriented programs As part of programming about the full scope of american the partially government funded network also began distributing an 11-part series a we do the work a which premiered on Many Public television stations on labor Day. In documenting the invisibility of . Labor issues in the major Media outlets fairs study said the nine month strike by the United mine workers against the Pittston Coal co. Received far less coverage a 23 network minutes a than an eight Day Coal strike in the soviet Union which received 37 minutes of network coverage. The nonviolent takeover of a Coal processing Plant by workers a the first major Plant takeover since the historic Flint mich., sit Down strike of 1937 a was ignored by All three networks and the new York times the study said. What coverage unions and workers did receive according to the study was dominated by the stake against Eastern airlines which captured 72 percent of All network coverage of unions. Much of the coverage referred to Eastern As a a Frank Lorenzo a airline a Tasini noted a was if workers who had spent most of their working lives at the airline had less of a stake in the Tasini however did note some positive network reports singling out abcs Morton Dean and Mike von Freund. A what was lacking in most of the coverage a a problem endemic to journalism in general a was a probing look at Frank Lorenzo a systematic looting of Eastern to prop up his non Union Continental airlines a he said. In addition the report praised the los Angeles times for having a some of the Best labor coverage of any daily the report also said a workers Are virtually never interviewed or portrayed As experts even though they Are the people who know the most about safety and health issues unemployment or Equality in the Plant. A in the absence of a strike stories about the campaigns of unions have almost entirely disappeared from the printed Page and to screen. Labor As a self contained beat no longer exists at Many Large to medium sized newspapers. It has been replaced by a a workplace beats under the direction of business editors and coverage is aimed primarily at managers and professionals. A there is a growing Gap Between the experiences of working people in the United states and reporters who Are supposed to cover them. Reporters and editors covering workers issues Are essentially White males who make upwards of $40,000 a year whereas the labor Force is experiencing dropping real wages and becoming increasingly peopled by women and Are Hurt As lightning hits Calif campers by the los Angeles times big Bear Lake Calif. A at least nine campers on an annual family Outing near Here were struck and injured by lightning that arced from a tree into a campsite where the group had taken shelter from a hailstorm sunday. Seven of the injured men women and children were taken by ambulance to nearby Bear Valley Hospital. A nursing supervisor said they were in Good condition. Two More seriously Hurt campers an adult and a child were flown by san Bernardino county sheriffs helicopter to Loma Linda University Hospital in Loma Linda Calif. Loma Linda nursing supervisor Teressa Mikesell said that both were in stable condition. Capt. Bob Buhrle of the California department of forestry said that the Accident in the san Bernardino National Forest occurred at about 1 30 . Approximately 20 from a larger group gathered under an awning attached to a travel trailer to escape a sudden heavy hailstorm. Lightning struck a tree 10 to 15 feet from the trailer a a spiralled Down the tree trunk and jumped a right into the crowd of people a Buhrle said. The injured were identified As Mary Woodbury Melissa Woodbury 7 Ginger Dodier 29, and her two children Amy 6, and Kevin 2 months Ann Dodier 31 Orange county sheriffs Deputy John Gentile 29 Kristen Southern 23 and Johanna Dalton 31. Pick one Brenda Mossberger randomly selects a can of this breakfast drink to be tested for Quality and weight at the Evansville ind., firm where she works. The drink is reportedly experiencing record assigned to Gulf faces abuse charges Clarksville Tenn. Apr a Soldier accused of leaving his three children by themselves when he was deployed to the Middle East has been charged with Misdemeanour child abuse police said. Staff sgt. Faagalo Savaikis two boys aged 13 and 9, and their 12-year-old sister were found dirty and alone last week at their Home police said. They were without food and pets in the Home were hungry. Savaiki assigned to the 501st signal in based at nearby fort Campbell ky., had been sent to saudi Arabia the week before. A to me its just blatant neglect of the children a said Clarksville police sgt. Bill poor who is in charge of the civil investigation. Savaiki was charged Friday with three counts of child abuse one for each of the children and other charges May be filed poor said. The warrants will not be served until Savaiki returns from saudi Arabia he said. On thursday Savaiki flew from saudi Arabia to american Samoa after learning his Mother was gravely ill. Poor said the children smother Joyce Savaiki has been told of their plight but cannot afford to buy a plane ticket from Hawaii to Clarksville. The Mother has been living in Hawaii with her family since separating from her husband More than a month ago. The children were placed in a Foster shifts emphasis to fighting drug War Peterson fab Colo. Apr relaxed relations with the soviet Union have enabled the North american aerospace defense come to shift More of its resources to another threat South american drug smugglers. But Norado a commander Gen. Donald j. Kutyna believes that every time the United states the Ante the cocaine Cartel will counter with Money and stealth. A the Way you re going to Stop the drug War is at the user level. You re not going to Stop it at the interdiction level a said Kutyna a four Star general and Vietnam Veteran who assumed command of Norad in april. A remember the to Chi Minh Trail Well we bombed them the North vietnamese we Nap Almed them everything else in the whole world. We still Stop them. A the Druggie is always going to find an innovative Way to get in. We re going to make it tougher for them. We re going to make it More costly. We re going to deter some by putting them in jail. But the Price of that stuff is High enough that they re smugglers going to keep Norad is a joint United states Ca Nadian command headquartered at Peterson fab and inside the top secret Cheyenne Mountain global eavesdropping Complex both at Colorado Springs. Their listening posts Span the Globe. In a recent interview Kutyna said that involving those assigned to his command in the drug War has boosted morale and sharpened skills. A it gives us a lot of Good practice that we weren to getting before. Before we had to hire Lear jets or t-33s to Fly As enemy intruder targets. Now we be got real targets out there who Are really trying to evade us As if their life depends on it they re a lot More motivated. A so our Crews Are scrambling at them several scrambles a Day. Something like 51 actual intercepts this year. Its keeping our Crews sharper. Sitting at Alert for hour after hour Day after Day is kind of Dull a he said. Among its assets in the drug War Norad has 41 ground radar Sites in the Continental United states and 13 in Alaska radar balloons in Florida and the Southwest about 60 fighter planes at 30 Alert locations and a Fleet of e-3 airborne warning and control system planes. A a that a a very costly Way of chasing druggies a said Kutyna who favors a broader ground based overlapping radar net called the Over the horizon Backstatter radar system. A i can to get Congress to fund it. I done to know if its politics or just a matter of Money but they have declared that the drug War is Over we done to have to worry about it anymore and therefore we done to need Kutyna said drug smugglers have switched their main route into the United states from the Caribbean to Mexico. A sixty to 70 percent of the drug traffic now coming into the states is through Mexico a said Kutyna. A at first they used to Fly right up through Mexico and across our Border. A a we be precluded that with Azacs patrols there we be got radar on balloons. So we be kind of shut Down the Border much better than it was before though they can still sneak through every once in a
