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Feb 4 4 tweets 1 min read
hey remember when Sarah Ferguson got a promotion to cover the 6 Jan insurrection after promoting one of its key protagonists on an apparently serious Australian investigative journalism show.
journalism loves rich white males with incumbent power, episode infinity.
literally impossible to picture #NPC giving a platform to anyone who would represent the progressive equivalent of a Clive Palmer. Where are the invites to BLM folks and unemployment activists?
corporate journalists will spend entire careers writing stories based on mostly implied yet structurally cemented free market illogics, and still not welcome new entrants like the Sunday Paper. Weird huh.

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