buzzfeed news is not shutting down because of anything its workers did or didn’t do, it’s shutting down because it is run by rich people who see no value in something that doesn’t make them even richer
yes, unionize your workplace, but that’s not enough. too much of the media is owned by millionaires and billionaires who fail upward and leave a trail of other peoples’ broken careers in their wake. people have to support real independent media for this shit to change