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Could unions and professional associations fill that gap? Why aren't they now? Where are groups like the ACLU? It's worth noting that journalism as a professio
by humanrebar 6y ago
Could unions and professional associations fill that gap? Why aren't they now? Where are groups like the ACLU?
It's worth noting that journalism as a profession has a problem with letting itself become political. Seems like for a journalism association to be effective in these cases, it must insist on the impartiality that most institutions seem to be finding too difficult lately.
- Dahoon 6y ago>Could unions and professional associations fill that gap? This and the below >journalism as a profession has a problem with letting itself become political Unions are by definition political, so that wouldn't solve the problem you describe.
- ptero 6y agoI think professional associations are pretty toothless; they are primarily for economic benefit, not for fighting or even providing support in an adversity. Unions might not be a very good fit either. They do have fists and I would expect a good union to put a fight for any member that got laid off, even if the union leadership finds that defending the person is a burden. But the union probably would not care about impartiality of reporting or help publish a particular view. But this does look like an almost perfect case for the freedom of speech defenders. I do not know why are they not helping. My only guess is that they are used to fighting the government or megacorps and have no idea how to help in this setup. But this is just a random guess.