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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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'It's more important to be at the top of something, than what that something is'
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It’s the career of choice for networking obsessed midwits.
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that is another framing that does not conflict with mine

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Maybe for local papers, but NYT etc pay is far from low http://glassdoor.com/Salary/New-York-Times-Journalist-Reporter-Salaries-E960_DAO.htm?filter.jobTitleExact=Journalist%2FReporter … Esp. if you're one of the opinion columnists that NYT/WSJ etc keep around to drive hate-clicks, you get paid multi-100K's for a piss easy job
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100k doesnt go far in new york as elite jobs go this is a pittance
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