They'll get much public sympathy because the press is biased on this one. Every journalist thinks of themselves as a writer. Writer's stick together.
Admittedly, the bias is in the direction I agree with, but I don't think the writer's need to worry about their public presentation unless the strike goes really long and the media has that inevitable realization of "oh, we're slanting things, we must immediately overcompensate in the opposite direction!"
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