It should be noted that Vice's journalists are all unionized, and derive extra-contractual privileges, and a competitive advantage over competing workers, as a

It should be noted that Vice's journalists are all unionized, and derive extra-contractual privileges, and a competitive advantage over competing workers, as a result of the anti-free market laws that beknight unions. https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vice-media-unionization-writers-guild-editors-guild-1202565117/ https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vice-media-unionizatio... As an example of the kinds of conflicts of interest that exist when media outlets write about unions: Vox writers, who eventually unionized, spent years publishing articles arguing for laws limiting the gig economy, like this one: "The gig economy has grown big, fast — and that’s a problem for workers" [1] Three years after the above article was published, its agenda succeeded, and a new anti-gig-economy law was passed in California. That law in turn forced Vox to let go of hundreds of gig economy freelancers, thus reducing competition to the full-time journalists who used their media platform to lobby for the law: "Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws" [2] The media being fully unionized means that it is extremely biased in its coverage of these kinds of stories. [1] https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-workers-desperate-services-labor https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of-freelance-jobs-ahead-of-californias-ab5.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of...