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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      one thing I am curious about: if you're a journalist, and everyone prominent relevant to your beat makes a collective and public decision to shun you, how screwed are you? can see it going either way, there are reasons to defect from such a consensus privately

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      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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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      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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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

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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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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      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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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

          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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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

          make of that what you will

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        2. Renzo‏ @HLBuncombe 2 Jul 2020
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          Don't forget Ronan Farrow.

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HLBuncombe

          Or Anderson Cooper

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        1. Angular Ocean‏ @AngularOcean 2 Jul 2020
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