MSNBC's morning show crew took some heat today from the left for its harsh treatment of labor unions. Front and center in the controversy is Cornell alum and NYT reporter Andrew Sorkin. Check out part of this post from MediaMatters:
New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin started off the nonsense about successful unionized companies, saying, "Name a successful unionized company. Think. You're gonna go to break before you come up with one."If Andrew Ross Sorkin's name sounds familiar, that's probably because he's the reporter who started the myth about the average GM worker being paid $70 an hour. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named him "Worst Person in the World" for that bit of blatantly false anti-union, anti-worker propaganda.
The post mentions UPS, GE, and even NBC as highly profitable companies with labor unions. GE, in fact, has 13 different unions.
Over on MetaEzra, Matthew Nagowski remarks that Sorkin could not possibly have been an ILR alum, for
had he been one, he would have known that there are scores of profitable unionized Fortune 500 companies out there.In any case, this doesn't seem to be as bad publicity for Cornell as this one or this one, but still. A little disappointing.
It's worth noting that both Sorkin and Olberman are graduates of the Ag School's Comm department.
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