At this point, the fact that data don’t support a connection between unemployment benefits and difficulty in hiring is beside the point. That work “ethic” equals the willingness to work in whatever conditions at whatever wage is an unchallenged, mostly unspoken pillar of corporate reporting. And they’re less and less willing to accept the line that an insistence on a livable life will wreck what we’re told is “the” economy. Do elite media have space for people who don’t want to risk their lives for less money than they need to live? Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of Israel/Palestine, Venezuela and voter suppression.