Reagan fires 11,000 striking air traffic controllers
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- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media whole source · open book
President Reagan’s firing of 11,000 striking air-controllers in 1981 “put the government seal of approval on strike-breaking and a new era of industrial relations opened.”122 But you would hardly know this from reading or listening to the mainstream media.
chapter: Introduction to the 2002 Edition