“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • So all strikes happen because demands weren’t met. Cool. And the fact that this is ostensibly true of literally every strike bolsters your case that this information should be in the headline… how, exactly?

    “Person McPersonson, who is a human being on or orbiting Earth and breathes oxygen, does a thing” should be in every article written about a person going forward just to make sure the people are informed.

    I’m not even going to bother arguing the obvious point that “forced” or calling the working conditions “unacceptable” in the publication’s voice is hilariously biased, because a) you’re clearly not intellectually honest enough to understand that and b) you’ve already dismantled your own shitty alternate headline by making everything you added to it superfluous – again, assuming the intent is to include pertinent information and not to make a propaganda piece.




  • How about we focus on the potential positives, instead of the short term pain?

    The purpose of a strike is to inflict enough pain that the organization you’re striking against accedes to your demands. Any news article worth its salt covering a strike will discuss the pain it inflicts both because it affects people outside the organization and because that’s the leverage the strikers have.

    The article’s job isn’t to “focus on the potential positives” because its job isn’t to be propaganda for or against the strike; it’s to cover who’s striking, what they’re striking for, and the leverage they have – to inform the reader of current events, to be news.