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...long, and Greider believes that these victimized workers are fed up and ready to assert their power. In his new book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider insists that there is no question of the widespread discontent among American employees; instead, as Grieder explained in an interview while in Cambridge promoting his book, “the question is whether people today have the sort of core courage and dedication to take on the big boys and stay with it as long as it takes; I think they...
...leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...Grieder's vision, the key to mobilizing this new activism lies in revitalizing the media. If competent non-politicians are to move towards involvement, them newspaper reporters must stop selling both their inaccurate version of the political process rationality and their superficial emphasis on the shock value of news. Instead, the media--through a more analytical approach to reporting--should educate the public about the often chaotic workings of the political system. Given a chance to think about political news, rather than just to react to it, people will take advantage of the system's openness to citizen participation...
There are problems with this constructive and upbeat vision, to be sure. It's not clear from Grieder's formulation how a new wave of media-inspired citizen activists will be any different from the old wave (Nader's Raiders, say, or even the Moral Majority) which has ossified into plain old special interest group politics. Grieder also doesn't assess the practical likelihood of the "reinvention" of news reporting, a revolution that seems unlikely given the growing economic constraints on newspapers and the inherent time limitations of network news shows. Still Grieder rightly observes, "American democracy is in trouble...
...their jobs with a sense of the limitations of political compromise, expecting to develop not only ideas for change but also strategic thoughtful ways to make them work, they stand an even chance of avoiding David Stockman's frustrated decline into cynicism. And if they are animated by William Grieder's strong faith in the progressive potential of the democratic process, they may do even better than that...