this article from 2015 struck me as particularly insightful then, by now is looking better and better every day https://theawl.com/access-denied-ab07024d888d …
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gist of it is that in The Old Days, journalists/photographers and celebrities/politicians had a stable, symbiotic relationship
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the former would trade exposure to a broad audience for access and exclusives from the latter. social media broke this down
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newsworthy individuals don't need the audience provided by publications anymore. they have their own audiences
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they can publish what they want, framed how they want, on their own channels, knowing the media *has* to report on it anyway
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this is what's really behind the press freaking out about trump ditching the pool, just tweeting whatever shit he feels like
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and what's behind the clinton team working with pliable pundits on backchannels to serve as glorified public relations staff
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the exposure the media used to offer to newsworthy figures, their stock in trade, just isn't as valuable anymore
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so they get easier to control, or to cast aside
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