{"id":1156,"date":"2008-12-19T01:53:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2008-12-19T02:07:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T10:07:58","slug":"labor-secretary-designee-hilda-solis-on-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Labor Secretary Designee Hilda Solis On The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Barack Obama announced today that he will nominate Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) to be his Secretary of Labor. Solis has a solid record of advocacy for workers and unions. She has fought for the protection of minimum wage laws and for workplace health and safety. She has creatively combined her interests in the working class and the environment to produce legislation that promotes the creation of “green”<\/em> jobs. She appears to have precisely the sort of experience and commitment to undue the damage of the Bush Labor Department and set the nation on a more productive and compassionate course. But wait, there’s more…<\/p>\n

Solis also serves on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, which gives her a firm background in matters of the media. In that regard she has been a vocal proponent of increasing diversity in the media and for creating more opportunities for women and minorities.<\/p>\n

Solis endorsed the Free Press study<\/a> that exposed how consolidation in the radio industry narrowed the range of expression on the air and in the management suites. She also challenged the FCC<\/a> and its Bush appointed chairman, Kevin Martin, to look into media ownership issues. She worked with Media Matters on a project that identified how right-wing broadcasters like Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck were propagating racist myths<\/a> about immigration.<\/p>\n

In short, were it not for her exemplary credentials in the field of Labor, Solis would have made a great FCC commissioner. But even as Labor Secretary there are areas that overlap with the media, and Solis has already proven herself to be a leader in that regard. And it certainly won’t hurt to have her voice in Cabinet meetings when the subject of the media comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Barack Obama announced today that he will nominate Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) to be his Secretary of Labor. Solis has a solid record of advocacy for workers and unions. She has fought for the protection of minimum wage laws and for workplace health and safety. She has creatively combined her interests in the working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[183,471,86],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-hilda-solis","tag-kevin-martin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-iE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6811,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6811","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama’s War On Women","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/6\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Nation has taken up the tactic perfected by Karl Rove of attacking head on your opponent's strengths and accusing them of your own weaknesses. Hence we have the Fox Nationalists declaring: \"Obama's War on Women.\" Throughout this campaign cycle there have been numerous examples of conservative assaults on women.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6575,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6575","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Slanders DOJ Attorney As A ‘Terrorist’ Lawyer","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/5\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again Fox News is demonstrating their overt hostility to anything and everything in the Obama administration. It doesn't matter if unemployment has dropped two points or that Osama Bin Laden is dead, somehow everything this administration does is tantamount to treason. Case in point: The Department of Justice recently\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32728,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32728","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":2},"title":"Trump Flat Out Lies About His Racist Birther Crusade","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/26\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight we witnessed the first face-to-face meeting between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Debate watchers might have expected that Trump would unleash a flurry of falsehoods. They were not disappointed. In the next few hours there will be a great deal of fact-checking going on and Trump's lies will be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"Debate Trump Clinton","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/debate-trump-clinton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/debate-trump-clinton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/debate-trump-clinton.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15865,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=15865","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":3},"title":"Right-Wing Media Attacks Twelve Year Old Musicians Because Their Parents Are Democrats","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/2\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The true conservative ethic is once again on display as a prominent rightist media organization launches a vile attack on twelve year old children who formed a rock band. The impetus for the attack was simply that their parents are Democrats. For the Family Values set, that's reason enough to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Twenty\/20","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/beacon-twenty-20.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/beacon-twenty-20.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/beacon-twenty-20.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4412,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4412","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":4},"title":"Obama Hooks Rupert Murdoch Into Immigration Debate","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/10\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In a speech in El Paso, TX, today, Barack Obama presented his case for making comprehensive immigration reform a priority. In the course of his presentation he shined a spotlight on a prominent immigration activist with whom he has little else in common. Obama: Already, there is a growing coalition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5379,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5379","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":5},"title":"IDIOT FOX: Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Know What Income Taxes Are","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/9\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In an analysis of Barack Obama's speech before congress last night, Bill O'Reilly invited Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, to the program to discuss the speech and its proposals. As usual, O'Reilly demonstrated his immense capacity for misunderstanding even the simplest concepts. He also reminded us of why no Democrat\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=219"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}