Better Watch Your Cookie...

I saw this on Al Jazeera the other day (The US: Waking up to class politics).

A popular item is going around in emails and Facebook pages among the people who are in solidarity with the workers protesting against anti-labour legislation in Wisconsin: A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier (a member of the emerging right-wing political movement) are at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 and says to the Tea Partier: "Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie."

When I related it to Tyler, a friend, via email, he came back with:

Union guy says, "That's the last time I make cookies for you bastards."

Hallin's Sphere's of Consensus, Controversy and Deviance

I was listening to On The Media this weekend, specifically to a story titled "Does NPR Have A Liberal Bias?" and they mentioned Daniel C. Hallin's book The Uncensored War and a diagram he has in it on journalism and sphere's of consensus, legitimate controversy and deviance.

Along these lines, Allison Kilkenny has a good writeup on what these mean for the delegitimation of the standard media over time (and indirectly, how this might relate to Progressives  -- or even Leftists, and to ideological hegemony overall).

Worth a read.