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

  Good Jobs First (7/6/23) 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. Our guest’s recent work names a simple, obvious way development incentives exacerbate racialized inequality: by transferring wealth from the public to companies led by white male executives. Arlene Martínez is deputy executive director and communications director at Good Jobs First, which has issued a trenchant new report. Transcript: ‘You Are Exacerbating the Racial Wealth Gap Through the Use of Subsidies’ https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230714Martinez.mp3   Free Press Also on the show: CounterSpin listeners are well aware of the gutting of state and local journalism, connected to the corporate takeover of newspapers and their sell-off to venture—or, as some would say it, vulture—capitalists. Florín Nájera-Uresti is California campaign organizer for the advocacy group Free Press Action. 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’ https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230714Najera-Uresti.mp3   Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Israel/Palestine and cluster bombs. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230714Banter.mp3