my favorite media thing is when you can sell some "piece" about a very localized phenomenon (blood-drinking vampire bars replacing hookah joints!) in one of the "three real cities" as indicative of a massive, nationwide trend
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and maybe it DOES seem like a trend to the writer, if they went straight from Bard College or somewhere, without passing go, directly into a 35k per year trendpiece slinging gig in a "real" city where the COLA is 10x that...they saw that "impossible" dog meat on their block
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politics is local, said Tip O'Neill (or someone), but millennial media is hyper-local, given depressed payrates, extreme insularity in the "real" cities, and other factors that promote these kind of rushed, lame-brained synecdoches ("everyone's drinking that breast milk now!")
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To be fair, this is likely because most media jobs (journalism, tv, film) have this baked in "two year trial period" where only people who come from wealthy families can actually afford to live on "entry level" salaries. Lower the barrier to entry and you'll get better bloggers
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