the crisis of journalistic employment represents a crisis of the selling out model in American political economy, a crucial pressure valve the way it's supposed to work is, you demonstrate some ability to agitate, to whip up sentiment, consistently over time and you get a column
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you hold a piece of glass to your throat once a week, you get paid, people with your identity markers look at you and think "oh, People Like Me can make it"; you feel like you're Doing Something, your complaints are neutralized by appearing in a nice glossy rag, everybody's happy
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but we seem to have hit a difficulty in that too many people signed up for the program and their output is mostly crap. we only actually want to read the best-crafted of it, and Paul Coates only had so many kids. and at the end of the day journalism has to move circulation
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if this venerable institutional path for the resentments of American society to be eased by symbolic victories collapses, will anything take its place? what will happen if nothing does?
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