Blog 2

I tend to get my news from multiple sources, including the people around me, the internet, and even the radio. Despite a wide source of news, I tend not to seek it out, as if it is important enough, I will hear about it relatively soon. As a result, I fell that I only really get hard hitting and widespread news, causing my relationship with the news to be quite negative. Since the news is quite pervasive, it tends to be negative in nature. Only being bombarded with negative news leads to a negative world view. I also tend to miss out on smaller and happier stories including local area news. Due to this I sometimes must prevent myself from seeing the news to keep myself in a positive mindset. Because of this it is important that I consider alternative news sources. One such is the podcast “A View from Somewhere” of which I listened to the episode titled "Marvel Cooke, a Journalist for Working People". The episode explored the life of a black journalist from the early 1900s and her erasure from history. Marvel Cooke was a journalist reporting on labor tin the 1940s and the inequality contained within. She worked with the likes of W E B Du Bois as a writer. She states she hated the job because of the restrictions placed on her. When she eventually moved on from this, she went to another newspaper where she organized a union with the Newspaper Guild and was part of one of the only strikes led by black workers to succeed in having their demands met. However, her impact left on the world was cut short and erased due the newspaper shutting down and its members being called before Senator McCarthy's committee sue to her communist views. I chose this episode because I believe labor and rights associated with it to be at a critical position in the current state of the world and I have a heightened interest in this because I will soon enter the labor force.