As always, great reporting from PubliCola.
62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, homelessness rates continue to rise in Seattle, yet the Times continually choses to eschew reality and side with the conservative minority in the city.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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That's cuz the Times is a union busting rat rag.
Same as it ever was.
Source? I tried searching and nothing relevant turned up.
During the 7 week strike in 2001 the Times fired striking workers and hired scabs "permanently". Part of the final deal was to rehire union members and let go of the scabs. But they quickly downsized in the following year, this was really the start of them utilizing syndicated reports instead of having a robust journalism team.
But the Times has always been against labor. It's not a unique ideology amongst our current media landscape but good God is it tiresome.
Aaaaand the pull quote that ties the whole thing together:
Headlines about a nightmare tenant and a homeless landlord get more attention than stories about a somewhat rudderless guy from a privileged background making a hash of managing his father’s property. Hunter said The Seattle Times didn’t even contact him before running Roth’s self-serving version of the story.
Fuck landlords