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Newsies. Mediocre Musical, Worthy Message

Part of Craig Houghton's adventure in democracy, activism, media, labor - (0)

The accents are a joke and I’m not quite sure if the overacting was intentional, but Disney’s 1992 box office failure Newsies warrants some renewed attention. It’s very loudly pro-labor. The movie was inspired by the NYC Newsboys strike of 1899 when homeless newsboys organized to take on media giants Pulitzer and Hearst over a […]