Driven By the Fringe

Dominic Pansford of the Press Gazette, a UK media journal, lays out why the NUJ’s shameful boycott doesn’t represent the majority of the union’s members, nor any mainstream element of British journalism:

It was a motion driven mainly by activists drawn from the far left of the union – a group whose influence at ADM far outweighs their strength in the membership as a whole. While the far left fringe add much to the strength of the union with their activism and enthusiasm, it is this kind of political posturing which still puts many journalists off joining the NUJ.