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stray thought about journalism, epistemic status: hunch journalism is a terrible career from a middle class perspective. The pay is very bad and unemployment is rampant however, it does have a perk: getting you involved with interesting or Important people if you get a good gig
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if you are sufficiently rich in a family sense, journalism (at flagship outlets) starts to look a lot more interesting money is less a constraint on your life, and it's a way to flex social power which becomes increasingly central as your status increases
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indeed, to the extent that this is what's important to your prestige work--it is very helpful to have connections to certain circles--coming from status may be an important factor in your early career performance heres the context for these thoughts https://twitter.com/nim__chimpsky/status/1278699539743072257?s=19 …
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I imagine if you were to scrape a list of NYT reporters and google their families you would see a striking pattern not NYT but off the top of my head I am thinking matty, Mika brshzoekgnkski--shit, even the chapo boys iirc
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this is also interesting in the context of newsroom rebellions around social justice if I were to hazard a guess, I would imagine that in journalism your Privilege is indeed a great factor in determining your success--probably much moreso than in other industries (say: tech)
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I missed why everyone is dunking on her now. I mean she seems to deserve it, but should I know who she is?
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she's no one not in the odyssean sense but who she represents is important, perhaps
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Socrates corrupting the youth >>> journalists
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journalists?
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