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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (90882)12/16/2004 7:08:07 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793801
 
And another POV I agree with. Romenesko

Unions for journalists seem odd, he says
12/15/2004 6:38:13 PM

From TERRY STANTON, managing editor, HedgeWorld: John Parker's letter about newspaper strikebreakers and loss of objectivity is rather striking in its failure to see just the other side of its point.

I've always felt that unions for journalists are a rather odd thing. Few other similar categories of employees are unionized, and I've always thought it rather bothersome to hear journalists involved in labor disputes decry the evil, penny-pinching ways of the companies that employ them. From these folks I find it hard to expect balanced coverage of corporate and labor-management issues.

I know it's a generalization, but joining a union does seem to engender a hostility toward business in a lot of people. Participation in Guild activities often seems awfully similar to the kind of overt political stuff that newsfolk are supposed to avoid.
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