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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

LA Times fires 115 journalists in ‘HR zoom webinar’ following union protests

www.theguardian.com

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LA Times fires 115 journalists in ‘HR zoom webinar’ following union protests

www.theguardian.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Young journalists of color ‘disproportionately affected’, with many Black, Asian American and Latino staffers laid off, Times guild says
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    A reminder to support your local news and investigative journalism

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      What if your local news is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group?

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        Then they’re not local and you can say fuckem.

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      The best journalism I see these days is either done by big names like AP or random dudes with cellphones.

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      As someone who lives in LA, what now? lol

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        I never lived in LA and I have an LA Times subscriptions. As far as I can tell, it is still provides quality journalism, despite some questionable decision making. I keep supporting it primarily because I feel like if it goes under then it will leave a big news void on the west coast. I try to support local media in addition to some of the big brands

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          It’s just getting smaller and smaller, and the stories are less and less deeply researched. I still get it, but a lot of days I feel like a modern day Don Quixote.

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            Or as a closed-caption error the other day spelled it, Don Coyote. 🐺 As another LATimes subscriber, I agree.

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    Sounds like union busting.

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    HR was glad to use the protests as an excuse for the firing. They needed a good sounding reason since all of these writers were going to be replaced by AI anyway.

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      It sounds like union busting, which is a terrible reason for everyone but their investors—who can’t see past this quarter’s profits.

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    Here we go again: Piece of shit Billionaire decides to fire 115 people because having access to billions of dollars just isn’t enough.

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    here comes ai

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