Nearly 300 Reuters journalists went on strike Thursday after they accused management of dragging their feet in union contract negotiations. It’s the first walkout for Reuters journalists in 30 years, and it comes nearly two years after their last contract expired. “While we reporters are called away from our families in the middle of dinner, something we gladly do for the job, Reuters executives sit in the comfort of their home offices managing the profits we bring in for the company,” Julio-César Chávez, a video reporter at Reuters, said in a NewsGuild statement. “I’m walking out today because our work is what powers the success of Reuters, and we deserve to be compensated adequately for it.” The strike is expected to last for 24 hours, and it was accompanied with a picket line outside the news agency’s Times Square office on Thursday morning. Reuters said in a statement that the strike’s “brief disruption” wouldn’t impact its services and it would “work with the Guild committee to settle on mutually agreeable terms.”
Nearly 3000,000 Reuters news consumers boycotted the news agency Thursday after they accused the agency of “fabricating and twisting” the news.
It’s the first boycott for Reuters news consumers in 30 years, and it comes several minutes after the very last, and the 700 millionth fabricated news story from Reuters over the last 2 months.
“While we news consumers take a break from our hectic daily schedules, something we gladly do for our sanity, Reuters journalists sit in the comfort of their home offices making up fake news stories while raking in their paychecks,” news consumer, Jack Readman, said in a statement. “I’m boycotting Reuters today because my reading material, if genuine, is what powers my intellectual curiosity, and we deserve to be fed REAL news, not this kind of junk!”
The boycott is expected to last forever, based on Reuters seeming lack of ability to be truthful in its reporting.
However, Reuters said in a statement that the boycott’s “incredibly long disruption” wouldn’t impact its services and it would continue to “work with its entire staff of 30,000 satirical journalists to publish its highly acclaimed, pulitzer-prize-like, fake news – and it would so until the end of time.”
Great !
Now we might get actual reporting.
Great. Hopefully the AP, BBC, and NY Times will follow.