I’d be willing to bet that I’m among less than one percent of senior editors/reporters in national politics 40> who has voted for both parties.
Why does it matter?
Why does it matter?
Well because as local papers dry up, journalism increasingly stovepipes. Similar academic pipelines form similar people going to the surviving corporate media companies that all have similar interests.
The web has also divided national political media into two concentrated competing forces.
On one hand, you have the conservative commentariat. On the other, about 8-12 journalism institutions barely holding on to objectivity as wokists steadily takeover their newsrooms.
On one hand, you have the conservative commentariat. On the other, about 8-12 journalism institutions barely holding on to objectivity as wokists steadily takeover their newsrooms.
Like any religion, and these are to some degree religions, they demand purity.
Deviations, like diversity (actual diversity, not superficial diversity), are not to be tolerated.
Deviations, like diversity (actual diversity, not superficial diversity), are not to be tolerated.
And so you have the NYT dismissing arguably the top health reporter IN THE WORLD during a pandemic ... because he doubted the intellectual veracity of antiracism.
And, while I’d love to both sides this issue, the conservative side mirrors neither the scope nor the viciousness
And, while I’d love to both sides this issue, the conservative side mirrors neither the scope nor the viciousness
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