I got an email, requesting donation, a while from
Truthout, noting that Truthout is a union “news publication”. There’s an article along these lines back in
2010, here.
Now, I do follow Truthout on Facebook and many of its
articles are very informative and expose a lot (of the wrongdoing on the
right). I haven’t thought about it lately, but television networks are union
(NBC had a NABET strike in 1976 when I worked there, and as a (non-union, salaried,
exempt) IT employee I actually did some “strike duty” in Brooklyn and was paid
extra. Many major newspapers are AFL-CIO.
I suspect that the newer digital news sites are
non-union.
But it seems that if you belong to a union, and you
write, you lose some freedom to say what you want – although I have belonged
independently to the National Writers Union (NWU) when I lived in Minnesota,
and it struggled with trying to offer media perils insurance.
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