Did the UAW come out on top in the restructuring of Chrysler? The media would lead us to believe they did. Dick Durbin’s cram-down bill is defeated with the help of more than 10 democrats. And the Senate, along with the mainstream media, keep single payer advocates on the sidelines.

Tonight on GRITtv our media panel looks at the economic coverage of the past week, the labor movement, and the healthcare battle. Nation writer JoAnn WypijewskiRobert Johnson former chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee, and Mark Brenner Director of Labor Notes take apart the conventional narrative of what’s happening to our economy. On that note, Wypijewski’s recent piece in Counterpunch, Death at Work in America, sheds some light on just what the media have missed.