Repackaged story bad journalism
When I read Kenneth Hurst’s Viewpoint submission,
“Wine workers’ demands irrational, unproductive”
(May 31), I had a feeling of deja vu.
After a few minutes on Google, I realized why. On April 8, the
Daily Bruin ran a submission titled “UC workers’
demands lack logic, rationality.”
This article was virtually identical and written by the same
author.
In fact, neither article had any interesting insights relating
to either strike. Both were generic anti-union submissions spouting
the tired mantra of reason, rationality and logic.
Both articles cite Hurst as a “former Bruin
columnist,” but it seems like he still has a monthly column
devoted to berating anyone on Earth who might be on strike.
With a UCLA community on the order of 40,000 people, I find it
strange that The Bruin finds space to reprint essentially the same
article by the same person on two separate months.
Tad Dreier First-year graduate student, electrical
engineering