Not really that impressive
These upper-class journalists despise the American working class with the burning fury of a thousand suns but the moment this contempt is turned towards them suddenly it’s wrong and bad.
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 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.
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.
On the one hand, striking workers good.
On the other hand, fuck anyone associated with the NYT.
i wonder what the effectiveness of a union in print media is. i feel like everything is an opinion column written by Picohitler McSmallbooj
I mean I’d love a union for the newsroom I work in. Long hours, a lot of unpaid overtime, little editorial control and high turnover are all big issues.
Like people here have a really warped view of the media industry, think whatever columnist they personally hate is representative of the entire field. Most reporters never get anywhere near an opinion column and even fewer have editorial input on a story after they’ve filed it. You write the thing then send it off because you’ve got two more on your quota for the day, and average pay is between like $13 - $25 per hour.
