THREAD: This may not be popular to say, but gotta keep it real: although I personally feel for the @BuzzFeed @HuffPost and other media workers being laid off (lots of talented people and losing your job is scary and terrible)—2 see such media outpouring to try and get these
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Folks hired elsewhere (some creating websites with their resumes; etc) shows the media’s higher priority/concern for things that AFFECT THEM. Do you see these same journalists as vigilant when GM wrongly lays off 15,000 workers, tweeting up a storm or talking about finding folks
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Jobs? What about Sears? Or fill-in-the-blank working class outlet. This doesn’t mean that currently employes journalists shouldn’t advocate for their colleagues being laid off to be hired elsewhere. But it is telling the hyper vigilance for our own versus the passive coverage of
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The controlled demolition of the middle class these same journalists just write up as another headline with very little follow-up and/or concern
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While I agree with the larger point of passive coverage of the destruction of the Middle class, what most journalists did by trying to help their friends are colleagues is just inherently human isn't it? It's only more visible because they all have a platform and social media..
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... Presence. I'm sure in the case of middle class workers, most people will also try to find jobs for their colleagues and friends as well.
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Like I said I don’t have any issue with them doing that. I was pointing out the pattern of media acting quite differently (and more actively) when an issue affects them vs working class elsewhere
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