like sure if you come from money you can do it, but the intersection of competent and old monied people is an incredibly rarefied group and hardly enough to staff an entire industry
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so anyone who is not independently wealthy and possessed of good sense is going to do something like computer science or statistics and I think you see this reflected in the quality of journalism, which as literature has fallen dramatically. not for only this reason, but.
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and it's a shame. journalism historically was often workaday yes. but you also had genuinely brilliant writers flexing their craft. New Journalism was real! it was not imaginary! and other journalists saw these stars writing and even if they did not reach that bar, they saw it
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to be fair, New Journalism was also essentially made up. like, you wander around on the street and write some entertaining exaggerations of the shenanigans you got into. it's fun but it's "creative nonfiction" at best not legit reportage
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that is extremely legitimate! that is the best thing a person can possibly do
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hnnnnngh I have former reporter scrupolosity syndrome
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im not sure of this but i think that radical chic may have been the most informative journalism article written in the 20th century and it was exactly as you describe
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Tom Wolfe is great... but fundamentally he's a fiction writer
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radical chic was more true than any dry piece about that party would have been! bonfire of the vanities was entirely fiction and nevertheless completely true
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I looooved Bonfire of the Vanities. read it summer 2020, good timing
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oh boy yes. extremely. so you see what I mean? :D
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I don't disagree with you, I just don't consider it journalism :P
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