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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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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yes, and they're certainly not being paid the rates that my company even pays a janitorial assistant or a janitorial intern (a real job category, with an hourly wage)
