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Related: About this forumWisconsin State Journal's Company Aligned with Group Running Pro-Waker Ads
Reporting thanks to Uppity Wisconsin.
Lee Enterprises-- the company that owns the Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune and scores of other newspapers accross the country doesn't like unions. In fact, they so dislike unions that they have put up a website called LeeUnionFree.Net specifically outlining why exactly unions are so horrible. They have all kinds of neat stuff, including the untruthful little piece of propaganda on the left.
And if you click on the "facts about unions" button it takes you to the home page for the Center for Union Facts, which just so happens to be the same group has made a million dollar ad buy on behalf of Scott Kevin Walker.
But, you don't really need to go to Union Facts-- LeeUnionFree has lifted most of the Union Facts talking points and put it on their own site, including charming claims such as your union dues will go toward the "help get our union president out of jail fund" and a warning that if they try and strike, Lee will "permanently replace" you. (Sounds like Lee really bargains in good faith!)
So, for those keeping score at home, not only do most of the Lee Enterprise board give heavily to Republican candidates and conservative groups, they actually have a website preaching anti-union vitriol annnnnd they even are aligned with a group that is running pro-Walker ads in Wisconsin right now!
Strict neutrality in all things political, huh?
The bought-and-paid-for "free" press in this country is a major part of our problem.
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Wisconsin State Journal's Company Aligned with Group Running Pro-Waker Ads (Original Post)
Scuba
Apr 2012
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a kennedy
(29,672 posts)1. Saw this under "Facts about unions", it's a Daily Show clip.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. I've seen that it's shameful....
... in fact now that I think of it again, it's clear this one incident is good reason to denounce all unions.
Or did you post if for some other reason?
a kennedy
(29,672 posts)3. Nope, didn't post it for some other reason.
and I agree it's shameful.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)4. buffett just bought lee enterprises
lee went bankrupt last year and buffett bought their debt. they control most of the newspapers in the "quad cities" here in illinois and iowa. ya their newspapers suck ass.it`s no wonder they went broke