Ralph Nader in The Los Angeles Times


On Families & Children: TV ads targeting kids are "electronic child molesting"

What other society tolerates electronic child molesting the way these corporations are targeting 4-year-olds [on TV]? They know when parents are away working. Then they market their products, undermining parental authority, [suggesting] junk food & violence as a solution to life's problems. [They're] corporate hucksters. People say it's up to the parents. Yeah, but who designed an economy where it takes two, three breadwinners to make a middle-class family living?
Source: George Skelton, LA Times Feb 23, 2000

On Jobs: Top CEOs make 415 times entry wages

Give them [corporations] too much power and they'll run roughshod over you. No shame, no sense of boundary. Everything's for sale.. Giant corporations have hijacked our democracy, have no allegiance to our country or communities, and are increasingly controlling our government, media, childhood. These top CEOs are making 415 times the entry wage in their own company. You know what it was in 1940? 12. 1980? 40. Now, 415.
Source: George Skelton, LA Times Feb 23, 2000

On Jobs: Unions struggle even in heart of union country

If you can't win a strike in Detroit, that shows you totally rigged the labor laws are in favor of big companies.
Source: Edwin Chen, LA Times Sep 5, 2000

The above quotations are from Media coverage of CA political races in The Los Angeles Times.
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