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Worth noting the journalists of The Guardian are all unionized, as members of the National Union of Journalists, and thereby receive above market wages and job
by CryptoPunk 5y ago
Worth noting the journalists of The Guardian are all unionized, as members of the National Union of Journalists, and thereby receive above market wages and job security as a result of the state suppressing their employers' liberty to contract with workers outside of their union.
Consequently they will have a financial conflict of interest when it comes to covering stories relevant to which political world view - left wing or capitalist - gains credence.
It is owned by a company structured like a non-profit trust, so it doesn't even have shareholders to offer meager pushback against the political agenda of its unionized workforce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian
- cinntaile 5y agoI don't see how this is relevant. This mostly sounds like a good thing though, now they don't have to fear for their jobs if they publish controversial articles.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoIts relevant to the subject matter of the article. Potential financial conflicts of interest should be disclosed, and that never happens in relation to the media and their interests in maintaining union power.