Arlene Martínez on Corporate Subsidies, Florín Nájera-Uresti on Journalism Preservation

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This week on CounterSpin: Media talk about “the economy” as though it were an abstraction, somehow clinically removed from daily life, instead of being ingrained & entwined in every minute of it. So white supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people. Arlene Martínez is deputy executive director and communications director at Good Jobs First, which has issued a trenchant new report. We talk to her about better and worse ways to meet local news media needs. Transcript: ‘What Californians Really Need Is Community-Centered, Truly Local and Responsive Journalism’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Israel/Palestine and cluster bombs.