Andrew Sage

We've also seen, in recent months, the elimination of Teen Vogue.

Conte Nast, Teen Vogue's parent company, eliminated Teen Vogue as an independent outlet.

Teen Vogue had been the furthest left of the even sort of mainstream outlets in the U.S.

It had carried a bunch of extremely good and radical work on race and gender.

It was also one of the few outlets with consistent trans writing.

And of course, the other aspect of all of these purges has been unbelievable and hinged transphobia.

And this was them just destroying what had been a very, very important outlet on the left for telling the stories of non-white people, telling the stories of workers, and telling the stories...

of trans people and they just destroyed it.

Even though, and this is actually very interesting, ever since Teen Vogue had, you know, shifted to doing a bunch of leftist coverage and covering the protests against Donald Trump in his first administration and had gone towards actually, you know, talking about labor and talking about struggle and talking about unions and talking about, you know, like the experiences of people living under white supremacy, its readership had exploded.

But again, that doesn't matter because it's bad for Donald Trump.

And so we're seeing the ideological tightening consolidation of the media as what had been an outlet that allowed people to talk about shit was just destroyed.

Now, speaking about outlets destroying things ideologically, hey, products and services, please don't destroy us.

Woo!

Now, as we covered on this show a few weeks ago, Condé Nast also fired several union workers illegally for, you know, staging a, again, protected workplace action demanding to know what the fuck was going on with these Teen Vogue firings.

And that's another aspect of all of this takeover, which is that these outlets were

just viciously and radically hate, and this is the ruling class, the people who run these outlets, viciously hate unions.

And this is something that's very important to understand in terms of media unions, because media unions were also a very powerful force for encouraging diversity.

Because, as it turns out, workers, and this is true, I could say this as someone who's part of a media union, are less racist than the bosses.

and in fact would like there to be more non-white people and don't like it when non-white people are discriminated against.

And this is one of the things that these media unions and the unions in general do.