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badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
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badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
Feech La Manna wrote:I knew our friend had questionable politics but I thought he was at least smarter than that
struttin' evil mushroom wrote:i won't belabor it because i've written about it ad nauseam here (though those posts are probably lost to wipes) but i also had journalism brain all through college; the j-schools really beat it into you and if you work on your college paper it's basically a co-ed frat and you invent a lot of reasons to feel like people aren't in solidarity with you
but man once you start working and see how shit actually works it just gets beaten out of you so quickly if you are at all a socially conscious person. most folks can't deal with it and quit pretty early on. i always admire the ones who stay and try to take it on from the inside. that is incredible, exhausting emotional labor.
and then i guess you have a few people who really believe it, deep down, and hell say what you will but at least it's an ethos. the problem is it's basically an evolutionarily advantageous trait for various reasons (not least of which is that the most powerful people in journalism almost exclusively come from elite institutions, if not elite/privileged backgrounds, so of course a certain degree of self-confidence is valued, as is a certain degree of refusing to challenge the tenets of the previous generation of elite journalists; also, being a contrarian sells!) so it appears most frequently in the most powerful journos
struttin' evil mushroom wrote:Feech La Manna wrote:I knew our friend had questionable politics but I thought he was at least smarter than that
i think you got it backwards: his politics as far as i could tell are 'fine' if to the right of most boarders now, and he was and i'm sure is funny/kind IRL
he just had journalist brain
surly wrote:well a big feature of journalist brain is blindness to bad faith action
struttin' evil mushroom wrote:i won't belabor it because i've written about it ad nauseam here (though those posts are probably lost to wipes) but i also had journalism brain all through college; the j-schools really beat it into you and if you work on your college paper it's basically a co-ed frat and you invent a lot of reasons to feel like people aren't in solidarity with you
but man once you start working and see how shit actually works it just gets beaten out of you so quickly if you are at all a socially conscious person. most folks can't deal with it and quit pretty early on. i always admire the ones who stay and try to take it on from the inside. that is incredible, exhausting emotional labor.
and then i guess you have a few people who really believe it, deep down, and hell say what you will but at least it's an ethos. the problem is it's basically an evolutionarily advantageous trait for various reasons (not least of which is that the most powerful people in journalism almost exclusively come from elite institutions, if not elite/privileged backgrounds, so of course a certain degree of self-confidence is valued, as is a certain degree of refusing to challenge the tenets of the previous generation of elite journalists; also, being a contrarian sells!) so it appears most frequently in the most powerful journos
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