Are mainstream media conspiring against unions?

[el_bryanto]

6. No, but yes

I don't like the word conspire because it implies that the media types all get together and plan out a strategy for dealing with the unions. I don't believe that happens. I don't even thing the owners of the networks do that. It is a competitive business, and I don't think they are working together to crush the unions really.

But, in another sense, most broadcasters and most editors identify with the corporate class. Particularly the national anchors and the show runners. They go to the same parties, their kids attend the same schools, and they, more than likely, grew up in the same surroundings as the big capitalists who hate unions. They generally haven't grown up working class and they don't identify with union members. They identify with the people crushing unions. So when they have corporate elites on their shows they accept the answers they are given. And when they have union leaders on their show they ask the piercing questions.

That's my take anyway.

Bryant