What the Analog Media doesn’t want you to see: Teachers and students fighting for quality education.

You would have to look pretty hard to find a newspaper in America today reporting on Friday’s events in LA. Nothing in the NY Times today. Not even in the LA Times for god’s sake.

Compare the coverage of the LA school actions to the hysterical coverage of the totally fabricated “tea-bag” rallies a few weeks ago. That phony protest, initially created from whole cloth by Fox, was the main story for days on every news report, network, cable and print.

When the defenders of the Mainstream Media Old Analog Media cry the blues about how their newspapers are going under, perhaps they might take a look at their own behavior to find a clue.

If it weren’t for the internet, bloggers and ordinary people reporting on Twitter, the scope of Friday’s teacher and student revolt may well have gone unreported nationally. And this is true about last December’s factory takeover at Republic Doors and the current occupation threats by workers at HartMarx.

In what papers did you read that 3,000 teachers in the LAUSD called for subs on Friday, 700 more than a typical May Friday?

Or that hundreds of parents in the San Fernando Valley rallied in support of their teachers?

Or that hundreds of students at Jordan High School and schools throughout the city walked out in support of their teachers’ demands for smaller class sizes and against budget cuts that would result in 3,000 job losses throughout the system?