Mencius Moldbugman

1/ The gutting of journalist careers as seen with all the recent #huffpo layoffs is joyful and necessary, but the media will get woken and worse before it gets better. We are not yet at the bottom of the Woke chain...

2/ When ad revenues fell off due to the rise of the net, longterm expensive older male journalists were the 1st to be let go from the legacy media. Most of these were GENUINE benefactors of “white privilege” (boys from the working class don’t grow up to become restaurant critics)

3/ So don’t feel too bad for the guys who sat and wrote food and movie reviews for 30 years. With the fall of the legacy media, online sites like Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Slate, Salon and all those other lügenpresse outlets rose to take their place.

4/ These sites were mainly staffed by low paid young female staff and an endless rotating army of unpaid interns. They were also good at what they did from a clickbait point of view: nobody knows how to generate hysteria and retweets better than a female mid-20s English lit grad.

5/ The legacy media adopted the model of their new online rivals, leading to once worthy newspapers of record descending into puerile clickbait, outrage, and projections against men by the new oestrogeneration of young “journalists”.

6/ It’s true that salaries of these women are low, but don’t feel too bad for them. Low media salaries, high competition and endless internships mean that only the most privileged of grads can afford to be funded by Mom & Dad for 8 years to pay their rents in the big media cities

7/ As well as a bankroll from Bank of Mom & Dad, the media has high barriers to entry. Only the most well connected get those initial internships which then lead to full time employment in the industry.

8/ Working class and/or conservatives need not even apply for these entry level media jobs. The only other avenue for those not well connected is to out-woke your competitors leading to an arms race in outrage, hysteria and click generating garbage.