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a thread to break down news articles, whats happening in them how they are constructed ect.

on the front page of the Detroit Free Press there is a picture of California Governer Jerry Brown pointing at a chart with a headline that says:




and a little teaser that says:



then you get into the article and it consists of this:

title:



and story


and thats it, thats all the info theyre giving.

Calif. governor seeks reduced worker pay to close budget gap

it apears as if the writers are trying to downplay the call for higher taxes and starve the reader of as much usefull information about it as they can, what do you think?

Heres an article where the title is:

Dead people, prisoners casting ballots in Michigan

get into the article itself and :



and



the false impression makes way for the vaguely worded solution in need of a problem

Troy company hiring hundreds; job fair Tuesday



wow that sounds pretty good, a job fair where a local employer is hiring 450 to 500 people.



nice cheery article, short and sweet but no info about the company or where the jobs originate from. guess thats all the information that the public needs from local newsproviders.

but it might help if it were explained that these jobs were already here that the newness of them is that the pay, and job security and humane conditions have been stripped out of them through privatization of local public school employees. kind of misleading to call the company local too. they seem to plug themselves in wherever the privitization scheme gets traction.

Airport Contractor had Fired Workers Involved in Union Organizing

Custodian Dispute Heads To Arbitration

lot comes up through a search, tension, conflict, legal action