There’s a major issue that hasn’t been reported on much this election. It’s because it’s a story about the folks who do a lot of the reporting.

Back in August an organization you’ve probably never heard of called the Canadian Media Guild had to register itself with Elections Canada as a “third party."

The CMG, in its own words, is a “union representing 6,000 workers in the Canadian media. Our members work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Societe Radio-Canada (CBC/SRC), The Canadian Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), TVO, TFO, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (aptn), ZoomerMedia, Shaw Media and CKOI Radio Gatineau (Quebec).”

That’s right. Thousands of people who create the news you consume have a union that’s registered as a third party in the election. Doesn’t this call into question their impartiality? Doesn’t this mean they’re a touch biased?

The CMG’s main lobbying efforts to get the political parties to support more funding for the CBC. Well lo and behold Liberal leader and frontrunner Justin Trudeau promised $150 million in new funding for the CBC.

This position the CMG has taken makes it difficult for the media professionals they represent to do their job. It puts them in a tough spot. And it puts the consumers of election politics news in a tough spot too. It makes them question whether they can trust much of the media.