CBS Evening news features Spain protests, refuses to use the word "strike" or "labour".

42  2012-03-29 by newsfeather

Just watched the CBS Evening news. Scott Pelley described the protests in Spain today as the youth rebelling against unemployment while showing images of bloodied protestors and clashes with police. Not a single mention of the words General Strike, Strike, Labour, Transportation, or anything else relating to the events in Spain. This glaring omission must be political and meant to subdue labour actions or attitudes in our own country. Thoughts on why CBS would refuse to report on the general labour union strike element in Spain?

8 comments

9  GodZillion 2012-03-29

The news shamelessly distorts everything nowadays. The clashes and pyromaniacs were a miniscule part of a very large labour action.

Mainstream news is dead to me.

6  Necronomiconomics 2012-03-29

Thoughts on why CBS would refuse to report on the general labour union strike element in Spain?

Fear & worship of the 1%

4  JSIN33 2012-03-29

NBC did NOT cover it.

2  newsfeather 2012-03-29

And NBC is considered the "most liberal" for mainstream right? I was surprised CBS even showed it knowing Pelley's track record on protest. I was just amazed at how they covered it and omitted key info, almost worse than not showing?? I mean every news cable they read in preparation for that segment would have talked about strike and labour. I think it's connected to OWS call for MayDay strike.

1  JSIN33 2012-03-29

They have 22 minutes a day to cover the world after you deduct commercials. If you add their obsession with weather anomalies, natural disasters, medicine news and airline industry news (the last two are big on NBC)..the world is covered in a headline fashion in five minutes or so. Don't forget the obligatory human interest story (only positive stories) at the end and you get the picture.

1  newsfeather 2012-03-29

I know, I know...;)..the conspiracy here was the careful omission of important words. Scott Pelley could have said in the same amount of time "Today in Spain a general strike erupted into clashes with police."

1  JSIN33 2012-03-29

What we need is a daily omission and misdirection blog.