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What does it mean?
Journalists from East and West cooperated due to shared poor working conditions.
In plain terms
Poor conditions made journalists from opposing sides work together.
What can you take from it?
Shared hardship can bridge ideological divides among workers.

Where it applies

  • media industry
  • labor conditions
  • international cooperation

Putting it to work

  • improve working conditions
  • foster collaboration
  • study media labor

Questions to consider

  • Do bad conditions unite people?
  • What bridges political divides?

Another view

It suggests cooperation only happens when conditions are terrible.

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