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Today, the world of corporate media is becoming an increasingly closed shop. Without the right, college-shaped opinions, connections and ability to do unpaid internships in the world’s most expensive cities, it doesn’t matter how great a writer or dogged a newshound you are. It’s a pay-to-play game. It’s those who can afford to join, or are born into this elite class, who are reporting, investigating and opinion-forming on behalf of millions and millions of us across the world.
At the same time, survey after survey shows that much of the public now distrust mainstream media. This should hardly be a surprise given the media tend to frame so many issues in the unpopular terms of identity politics, from race to gender. This is perhaps the biggest indicator that many corporate journalists are no longer serving or even familiar with their own fellow citizens.
Today, the world of corporate media is becoming an increasingly closed shop. Without the right, college-shaped opinions, connections and ability to do unpaid internships in the world’s most expensive cities, it doesn’t matter how great a writer or dogged a newshound you are. It’s a pay-to-play game. It’s those who can afford to join, or are born into this elite class, who are reporting, investigating and opinion-forming on behalf of millions and millions of us across the world.
At the same time, survey after survey shows that much of the public now distrust mainstream media. This should hardly be a surprise given the media tend to frame so many issues in the unpopular terms of identity politics, from race to gender. This is perhaps the biggest indicator that many corporate journalists are no longer serving or even familiar with their own fellow citizens.