they always, with out variation fuck their own.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/cnns-new-90-day-wait-period-for-paychecks-has-freelance-producers-outraged/
Similar - leftist newspapers where always real big on pushing leftist pro union/living wage bullshit while at the same time fucking their own employees over whenever they got the chance and being absolutely merciless against any employees who tried to unionize
Seattle Times has done this on several notable occasions in my lifetime.
Maybe it'll change when/if journalism gets "de-kiked" but they're all fucking swine every God damned one of them.