“TV News Covered British Royal Visit 5,668% More Than Largest Academic Strike in U.S. History” [Adam Johnson, The Column]. “ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN all have a dedicated ‘royal expert,’ ‘royal correspondent,’ or ‘royal commentator.’ … ABC, CBS, and CNN do not have a “labor expert” or a dedicated labor reporter of any kind. NBC News does, Eli M. Rosenberg, but he has not covered the University of California academic strike. … None of the Sunday morning talk shows, NBC News’s Meet the Press, CBS News’s Face The Nation, ABC News’s This Week, or CNN’s State of the Union—which set the agenda for what people in Washington are supposed to care about that week—have covered the California labor strike since it began in November 14. CNN, which has over 500 hours of news to fill in the three weeks since the strike began, hasn’t done a single segment on it. The largest academic strike in U.S. history is simply a non-story to TV news outlets.”
--from nakedcapitalism.com
Sort of like local land-use planning. There are lots of "traffic engineers" (who were educated in programs funded by auto manufacturers) but no "pedestrian engineers" -- which, if you think about it, are necessary if you're going to have people walk to transit stops. No transit patrons? Transit withers to a third-rate excuse to buy a car.
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