Charles Bowden on Capital, Labor, State & Media 2011

Charles Bowden, award-winning journalist and author of "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields," has a wide-ranging discussion on the intersection of numerous social factors - rising corporate power, the importance of government as a check against it, the decline of labor unions, the effects of illegal immigration, the catalyzing effect of Occupy Wall Street, and the media's abdication of its responsibility to the people.

"There are no labor reporters anymore," he said of the press. "Everybody works, but nobody covers it. Did you ever ask yourself about that?"

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