Corbyn had no network of sympathetic journalists when he won the Labour Leadership. Thus the current media freakout. https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/my-thoughts-on-the-plight-of-labour-38413229f88#.eqw18sbv8 …
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Corbyn operated in the fringes prior to 2015, so hadn't cultivated a coterie of supplicants and PR whizzes.
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There's a Trump/Sanders parallel: much of the hostility from the consultant/media class derives from their resentment at being circumvented
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If media/consultant/party structures can be successfully circumvented, that diminishes the stature of actors within those structures.
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So the actors lash out, often with bad faith charges -- the core grievance is self-interest. "You're tarnishing my professional credentials"
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