As dastardly as the mainstream media can be, most recently in its pitiable defense of witless Walz against the victorious Vance, it should really bear in mind the unintended consequences that may emerge from its militant discouragement of critical thinking.
In other words, the media should really learn not to train its little militants too effectively.
Particularly when the little militants may well turn against the media with even more outrageous demands than even the media could have envisioned.
And, even more amusingly, the little militants are hitting the New York Times, one of the more “respected” liberal media
Per a hilarious report from the Daily Mail, the Times Tech Guild is apparently going berserk with a list of rather impractical demands … right in time for the election.
The Times Tech Guild Chair – Kathy Zhang – is the apparent ringleader of this newfound employee rebellion, which is quite humorous, to say the least.
“Furious tech workers at the New York Times are threatening to strike on Election Day unless bosses meet their lengthy list of outlandish demands.
Requests from the union members include a four-day work week for increased pay, unlimited sick leave and paid time off for pet bereavements … Employees are also demanding trigger warnings around discussions of the news, banning scented products in break rooms and well as job security for foreign employees on visas in the event of layoffs,” the media outlet reported.
“Unlimited sick leave.”
Hm. Seems the pandemic created a situation in which the literal media may have bitten off more than it can chew.
What, with endless lockdowns and whatnot, little wonder employees, especially at work newspapers, think they are entitled to “unlimited sick leave.”
On its part, the New York Times reportedly argued that fulfilling such demands “would cost the paper more than $100 million over the proposed three-year contract.”
Alas, perhaps the paper should not prop up economically illiterate candidates.
After all, employees may actually start believing money grows on trees. Harvested exclusively in actual taxpayer lots.
Danielle Rhoads Ha, a spokeswoman for the Times, tried to underscore the absurdity of the Tech Guild’s demands.
“Since July 2022, bargaining has been focusing on a broad range of non-economic proposals from the Tech Guild such as pet bereavement leave, unscented cleaning products, and banning machine learning among many other topics that are typically not part of collective bargaining agreements,” Ha asserted.
Ha also pointed out the apparent detachment of the Tech Guild from reality.
“The Tech Guild leadership’s claims about gender and racial pay differences are connected to their methodology, which doesn’t compare the pay of employees performing similar work,” Ha continued.
Well, their economics is certainly detached from reality, so it’s natural that their methodology should be as well.
“The Tech Guild recently submitted their economic proposals. We look forward to working with the group to reach a fair contract, that takes into account that they are already among the highest paid in the Company and journalism is our top priority,” Ha added hastily.
Is that so?
Rather sad that so-called “journalists” are the “highest paid” when spreading mass disinformation.
It will be quite interesting to see exactly how the Tech Guild may win out, especially right before one of the most crucial, if not the most crucial, elections in recent memory.
Author: Jane Jones
