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I think Norm Pearlstine's point about the "consent of the governed" is the smartest thing anyone has observed about this moment in newsrooms/the grapple between management and labor https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/business/media/ben-smith-election.html
In an increasingly democratized media environment - in which we openly discuss and debate hard topics here online - newsrooms no longer see their top leadership as all-knowing deities, rather people to be challenged when they are wrong
Added to that is the reality that, unlike as recently as 20 years ago, there is no expectation of spending your career in one velvet coffin of a newsroom. The newsroom provides less security than it once did (even at successful places)
And so -- especially in a polarized time, with many issues with clear right and wrong (racism and insurrection, for example) -- newsroom people feel strongly about their "freedom of association": bad newsroom decisions reflect on their work and identities
I don't see these as "speech" issues - newsrooms have always selected/curated, w/some views & people denied platform. It's about gulf between where governed want the line drawn & where bosses do - about who defines a publication: the corner office or those who do the actual work
