Posted on 12/02/2021 9:48:12 AM PST by DeweyCA
If America’s journalists once spoke truth to power, today America’s journalists are the powerful, a tightly knit caste both highly educated and affluent.
“Elite journalists resemble senators, billionaires, and World Economic Forum attendees in terms of educational attainment,” a recent study found. Politicians and journalists go to the same schools and live in the same neighborhoods — especially liberal journalists.
Reporters didn’t used to be celebrities. But cable news and Twitter have changed the equation. Social media offer journalists a lower-grade but still-fulfilling form of attention, the ersatz celebrity of our age — internet fame — provided you can write the kind of stories that will go viral, the kind that flatter the vanity of affluent liberals without pointing out how much they’ve benefited from inequality.
As Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty put it, in a 2017 data analysis of the media bubble in Politico, “If you’re a working journalist, odds aren’t just that you work in a pro-Clinton county — odds are that you reside in one of the nation’s most pro-Clinton counties.” They also go to the most elite schools: 65 percent of the 150 news interns who worked at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Politico and the Chicago Tribune in the summer of 2018 came from a tiny group of highly selective universities, another study found. For the New York Times, the figures were even worse: 75 percent of its 32 summer interns in 2018 came from intensively selective universities. One in five came from the top 1 percent of America’s colleges.
... journalists now tend to do what elites do: They work to defend the status quo — though these days, this is accomplished under a patina of “social justice” wokeisms.
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They are defenders of the liberal elite because they are part of the liberal elite.
We do not have news and journalism outlets, any more.
We have propaganda outlets.
That’s a distinction without a difference...............
Any crusty nose-ringed community college paper reporter raised on food stamps will spew the leftist agenda with zeal, but only elites from families with deeply entrenched vested interests in the new world order will be entrusted with big media duties.
“today America’s journalists are the powerful, a tightly knit caste both highly educated and affluent.”
Prime examples of the Managerial Class. They serve the Managerial State (a/k/a Deep State). The media is what it is. Been that way for decades. They are not going to change.
We saw how powerful in their ability to fix the Rittenhouse case. Oh wait....
Educational attainment?
A degree in journalism? I have rolls of those degrees in my bathroom
They are muckrakers. What is sad is that the legend of muckrakers as something good and decent endures.
The “muckrakers” were nothing but anti-capitalist crusaders. What’s honorable about that?
Progressive myths are so, so incredibly powerful........
We never had "news" and "journalism", right from the beginning. It was all a big lie. They put on masks to hide their activism from day one, and sadly it worked. People bought it and the legend endures.
Progressive myths are so, so incredibly powerful. It never ceases to amaze me how rock solid this false reality is.
They are shrill cosmopolitan elitists, who tell the riffraff what to think, how to live, and whom to hate. They make a lot of money for it.
Very good concise summary.
Fake journalists = Libtard cheerleaders 🤪
Don’t waste your time if you consider it valuable.
Actually, the muckrakers of the late 19th and early 20th century were defenders of anarchists.
Same thing.
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