Let’s play a fun game. I’m going to show you a video. You guess what’s missing from that video. It’s 3:29 long and aired on CNN.
Did you catch what was missing?
If you didn’t, you didn’t watch the video. If you did, you’ll realize that this wasn’t a puff piece on the CWA and unions done by the unions, it aired as news on CNN. Apparently no one could be found to give this story the opposing side of how unions harm the general public and stifle businesses. Whether you agree with it or not, that is an opposing view, and one that this entire 3:29 video is completely lacking in.
How do you call yourself a news organization when you can publish an entire video with your badge on it that has not one lick of criticism, or even critical thinking, about the topic at hand? In the course of that video we heard as much union propaganda as could be shoved down one’s throat and yet we heard next to no criticism of unions or the policies they tend to employ. We even learned that the solution to a disparity in income and unemployment in certain communities were to employ more union labor!
It’s embarrassing that this appeared as “news” on a “news network.” I would have no problem if the CWA or the other unions mentioned in this piece put this out as a pep talk for people. I have a real problem that a supposed news organization, one that calls itself the gold-standard in cable news, could put this out there with a straight face.
It’s a joke, plain and simple.