Thread by @akurjata

Nepotism is not great overall but I guess I don't really understand what the point is of having a list of every journalist who is related to some other journalist?

And I guess also I am not sure you can say "it is just a list" because, well, you are publishing it and that implies there is some sort of point? Idk.

And I mean I am saying this as someone who didn't know anyone in journalism starting out but I would probably be more interested in finding out which schools everyone went to or something like that because from the outside that seems to be far more of a pervasive clique

Or maybe: How many working journalists are there who were raised outside of Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver? Or who have ever worked in another field?

I mean I don't know that the list is necessarily *harmful* tho it does kind of imply the people on it didn't earn their way

Anyways maybe I'm just naive because the one privilege I don't have is industry connections so I'm not even aware of how it's held me back?? I'm so far outside the circles I don't even know they exist. Fully a possibility