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The BBC's staff are fully unionized, and derive extra-contractual benefits at the expense of their employers' contract liberty. Therefore, they have a financial
by CryptoPunk 5y ago
The BBC's staff are fully unionized, and derive extra-contractual benefits at the expense of their employers' contract liberty. Therefore, they have a financial conflict of interest in how they cover this story.
- advisedwang 5y agoThey have no conflict of interest. Neither Uber nor GMB pay BBC staff in any way. The only degree to which they benefit is from whether this leads to an overall societal trend that might benefit them. Its unreasonable to expect journalists not to comment on any element of the public sphere that impacts them in some way. E.g. you might as well say BBC staff shouldn't cover the NHS because they get NHS care.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoThe laws that grant them their extra-contractual benefits depend on wide public support for the left-wing political narrative.
- burkaman 5y agoThis is like saying the BBC should not cover any national government in the world, since they receive financial benefits from their own government.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoThis is a highly concentrated benefit, in that the group to which they belongs constitutes a very small percentage of the population, and benefits disproportionately from laws that empower unions at the expense of their employers' contract liberty.