The self-righteousness of journalists, owned by transnational Roy-esque conglomerates, is infinite.
Especially against their backdrop of cheerleading every dumb war for 75 years.
The fourth estate is great in theory, and propaganda in fact.
a journalist once told me large companies had a “duty” to respond to press inquiries. why? because, she said, they run critical infrastructure, but who are these people? no one elected them. that struck me as reasonable. until it occurred to me... wait, who elected you?
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Columbia School of Journalism is a helluva drug
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The distinction between the press as social institutions and companies as not social institutions, despite that both are for-profit enterprises, tells you all you need to know about which critical infrastructure operation views itself as more righteous.
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Good observation. Good point. Thank you for enlightening me.
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That might imply we should want to create positions for elected journalists... I think that's the only way to make the status quo in that industry worse.
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well we could've gone in a direction of more of a state-supported media a la the BBC in the US, but we decided not to in the post-war period, choosing a private, advertising supported one, hence private-sector journalists w/ less public accountability.
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my point is not that journalists are correct, my point is upon further reflection the journalistic sense of entitlement to an executive’s time seems both hypocritical and silly
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Free market elected them?!
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you’ve noticed the actual total collapse of the media industry, yes?
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