{"id":73374,"date":"2020-02-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73374"},"modified":"2020-02-27T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:35:18","slug":"young-jerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73374","title":{"rendered":"Young Jerks"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s a figure anywhere in the liberal media that makes the likes of the late Ed Schultz, or Chris Matthews, or most of the host of “the view””, seem intelligent, rational and human, it’s Cenk Uygur, impresario of the “Young Turks”\ufffc – sort of a “MinnesotaReformer” for loud, entitled people.<\/p>\n

They are, naturally, progressive to a geometric fault.\ufffc<\/p>\n

Including, it seem, in terms of rank hypocrisy. Uygur, It was a knee-jerk supporter of public sector unions and the national $15 an hour minimum wage for mere public sector employees\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 has a different point of view <\/a>when it comes to his own organization:\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Earlier that day, a Twitter handle claiming to represent TYT employees had announced on the social media platform their intention to form a union. In the staff meeting, the network\u2019s co-founder and influential host, Cenk Uygur, urged employees not to do so, arguing that a union does not belong at a small, independent outlet like TYT, according to two workers who were present. He said if there had been a union at the network it would not have grown the way it has.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Huh. You don’t say?<\/p>\n

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His talk \u2015 at times emotional, the staffers said, with Uygur throwing his papers to the ground at one point, and chastising an employee \u2015 seemed to contradict the progressive, worker-first ethos that TYT broadcasts to its millions of lefty followers. Jack Gerard, who is acting as the company\u2019s chief operating officer as Uygur runs for Congress in California, told the staff they were not discouraging unionization. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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But the message from Uygur was clear \u2015 and, to at least some staffers, discouraging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

Not nearly as discouraging as…oh, I dunno, realizing your’re out of collect, paying of $200K in student debt, and still\u00a0working for Cenk Uygur<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But still discouraging.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s a figure anywhere in the liberal media that makes the likes of the late Ed Schultz, or Chris Matthews, or most of the host of “the view””, seem intelligent, rational and human, it’s Cenk Uygur, impresario of the “Young Turks”\ufffc – sort of a “MinnesotaReformer” for loud, entitled people. They are, naturally, progressive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions\/73410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}