Not really that impressive
Love to see people on hexbear dot com mock a strike carried out by workers in a quickly proletarianizing industry.
Labor actions are only good when the workers I personally sympathize with do them, right?
Fuck these journalists who have been demonising strikers for decades. When rail workers and nurses strike. The world gets worse, because the work that they do adds value to the world. If journalists strike, the world would be a better place, since they do not add value to the world. And they stop churning out their misleading garbage.
Next you gonna tell me that we need to support landlord strikes, cause they are technically workers* too.
Journalists perform labor and landlords don’t. At least argue in good faith here.
It’s also worth pointing out that these journalists don’t have any real editorial control. Giving them more power in the workplace is a step toward changing that. You’re getting angry at the workers for doing their job and collecting a paycheck instead of the guys who tell them what to write.
I don’t expect the media class to be the vanguard but I also don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t lend them critical support in their struggle against their own oppressive class dynamics. It doesn’t have to be a black-and-white sort of issue.
I don’t expect the media class to be the vanguard but I also don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t lend them critical support in their struggle against their own oppressive class dynamics.
When newsrooms unionize their content almost always shifts leftwards (see: The Onion) but some bitter assholes here want to act like that’s a bad thing.
Sorry, as a leftist I should support the very people who are actively trying to surpress and destroy unions, affordable health care, or any vaugly left political project. All my effort should be speant protecting an adult nussery for the sons and daughters of various oligarchs and aristocrats too stupid and weak to get an actual job. We need to pay these people as much as we possibly can for there glorious opinion pieces and repeat state propaganda.
I hope their paper crumbles and turns to dust. They’ve demonized unions for years and have ramped up transphobia over the last two years.
The new york times collapsing would be a good thing.
I’ve got no love for the NYT as an institution but I’d still not shit on workers striking for better conditions. Plus lack of editorial control is a big factor in a lot of news guild agitation. Like most reporters have no say on the the editorial slant of their paper.
If you want sympathy out of the world, you have to put it in first.
I don’t know why you’re so mad at my opinion. You know it’s right, which is probably why your inner kvetch kicked off.
Because I’m a reporter working on unionizing my own newsroom, jackass, and a big paper striking is a win for people trying to do the same in smaller outlets. I’m mad because for all the talk about how the PMC needs to proletarianize, once it actually starts to happen there’s absolutely 0 solidarity. Never mind that most reporters are already fucking hourly wage workers.
You’ve articulated this well and won me over. Thanks for taking the time to explain your position in the thread.
If you want sympathy out of the world, you have to put it in first.
I don’t know why you’re so mad at my opinion. You know it’s right, which is probably why your inner kvetch kicked off.
This comment is gross. I can’t articulate why, but its set off my ick alarms.
I am now in favor of the NYT strike.
