News-meeting trigger warnings: A window on the decline of The New York Times

We always knew it was a very different world over at The New York Times, but the demands of the striking Tech Workers Guild are still quite the eye-opener.Bereavement leave for pets.Ban scented products in the break rooms.Trigger warnings for news meetings — which inevitably touch on disturbing topics because that’s much of what makes news.Privileged much?Mind you, the 600-plus members of this union make an average of $190,000 — $40,000 more on average than journalists in the Times Guild — and only have to work in-office two days a week (though provisions for all-remote are another “grievance”).Of course, this is a paper that saw a massive staff revolt when the paper ran an opinion column arguing that the National Guard might need calling out to tamp down the 2020 George Floyd riots — a rebellion quelled only by high-level firings.We understand the Times’ business model now relies heavily on lefty clickbait and games like Wordle, but we have to wonder if it can keep hiring mainly from a pool of such precious snowflakes and still keep “All the News That’s Fit to Print” as its motto....