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Millennial reporters are a disaster

The rise of millennial "journalists", especially f...
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
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deep friendly grandma sweet tailpipe
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Mahogany concupiscible gas station
  07/16/18
this is actually great news. the "elite" medi...
hot doctorate blood rage
  07/16/18
All news is like this now, not just elite news. Even ostens...
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
have any other civilizations allowed hysterical female child...
Fear-inspiring Stead
  07/16/18
It is unprecedented
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
well. what do you think precipitated the decline of rom...
hot doctorate blood rage
  07/16/18
Soon after this "evolution" to woke, feminist marr...
hot doctorate blood rage
  07/16/18
didnt constantine crack down on marriage stuff bigly...but t...
Fear-inspiring Stead
  07/16/18
again, this is good news. young white men are just bein...
hot doctorate blood rage
  07/16/18
yea I know fewer and fewer white dudes willing to toe this l...
Fear-inspiring Stead
  07/16/18
imagine the ones who are teens now.
hot doctorate blood rage
  07/16/18
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azure shaky brunch associate
  07/16/18
Your OP about the circumstances of who ends up in journalism...
Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo
  07/16/18
this has to be a post-Internet development strangely, # o...
vigorous senate
  07/16/18
Circulation is plummeting but readership remains relatively ...
Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo
  07/16/18
Maybe longer. But it seems like things have gotten worse. In...
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
and for a long time after there were still substantial amoun...
Cruel-hearted poppy headpube
  07/16/18
Exactly
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
Journalism became a professional class job after Watergate. ...
Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo
  07/16/18
a lot of them have "life experience" in the sense ...
Cruel-hearted poppy headpube
  07/16/18
I am skeptical that this is the case. Maybe an elite few. Bu...
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
i know many of these. a lot of the type who bounces around a...
Cruel-hearted poppy headpube
  07/16/18
jfc at these 22 year old bratty girls screaming at public fi...
Fear-inspiring Stead
  07/16/18
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white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
Musk's trolling of the media has really been inflaming them....
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
lmao i loved that tweet
Cruel-hearted poppy headpube
  07/16/18
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white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
JFC, XO is now siding with fucking elon musk, who has all bu...
nofapping stage
  07/16/18
this is how libs think folks
Fear-inspiring Stead
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white aromatic background story
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Comical kitchen
  07/16/18
It's hard to make money in the news business with the intern...
pink dragon
  07/16/18
(Noah Smith)
Fear-inspiring Stead
  07/16/18
Look at the insight we are gaining with this new crop of jou...
white aromatic background story
  07/16/18
The fuck?
twinkling out-of-control circlehead fanboi
  07/16/18
She is shaping the opinions of her 100K followers on Twitter...
white aromatic background story
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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:49 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

The rise of millennial "journalists", especially female journalists, has been a disaster. The death of journalism as a real business has led to a situation where almost all new journalists must be willing and able to work for free until they can get a job paying next to nothing. Oh and you need to have connections and probably attend an elite school to get this job. So who does this job now? The narcissistic sheltered children of wealthy people on the East and West Coast.

Most of the media knows nothing. They have literally no real skills, life experience, or any familiarity with the lives, ideas and opinions of people outside of their bubble. This has always been somewhat the case in the U.S., but the situation today is much worse.

As Ben Rhodes (Obama's speechwriter) discussed in the NYT, this situation makes journalists easily manipulated. But what he isn't going to complain about is their extreme bias and lack of a sense of decorum. Look at the way these young female journalist act on twitter, email, or in life in general. The standards of decency have gone down and will only continue to degrade over time.

https://twitter.com/jmcduling/status/1018713080342048769

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/953729116649517056

https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/new-york-times-reporter-broke-the-biggest-rule-in-journalism/



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438662)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:51 PM
Author: deep friendly grandma sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438675)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: Mahogany concupiscible gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438683)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:55 PM
Author: hot doctorate blood rage

this is actually great news.

the "elite" media has discredited itself right into the trash bin of irrelevance.

where they always belonged.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438723)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:00 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

All news is like this now, not just elite news. Even ostensibly non-political websites, like Gizmodo or The Verge, have inane Millennial political commentary and "think pieces" now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438763)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:03 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

have any other civilizations allowed hysterical female children take the reigns of molding public opinion and policy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438785)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

It is unprecedented

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438809)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: hot doctorate blood rage

well.

what do you think precipitated the decline of rome?

"Think no-fault divorce is a modern invention? Not so! Susan Treggiari, a Stanford classics professor and author of the book “Roman Marriage” explains that ancient Romans were the ultimate realists when it came to marriage. Over a mere few centuries, they developed divorce laws that in some respects are more liberal than many state divorce laws today.

In the early days of the empire [xo ed: they mean republic here], husbands had the right to divorce their wives for any number of offenses, from adultery to making copies of the household keys to drinking wine (no go, afternoon chardonnay sippers). Roman husbands could also dump their wives for not producing an heir. Notably, it was not necessarily deemed the wife’s fault if she didn’t bear a son. And if a husband wanted to leave his wife, he had to give back her dowry, so that she would be eligible to marry again. That’s right, she took away exactly what she brought to the marriage.

As time went on, the customs of marriage and divorce in ancient Rome evolved. Eventually, wives were given the power to initiate divorce, and by the first century B.C.E. the Roman version of the no-fault divorce emerged. Either spouse could choose to leave a marriage at any time, and for any reason, including the desire to simply no longer be married!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438915)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: hot doctorate blood rage

Soon after this "evolution" to woke, feminist marriage laws was complete Rome was in full blown crisis mode as the patriarchy/family disintegrated leading to eg,

"The Lex Papia Poppaea was a Roman law introduced in 9 AD to encourage and strengthen marriage. It included provisions against adultery and celibacy and complemented and supplemented Augustus' Lex Julia de Maritandis Ordinibus of 18 BC and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis of 17 BC. The law was introduced by the suffect consuls of that year, Marcus Papius Mutilus and Quintus Poppaeus Secundus, although they themselves were unmarried."

Sick and sad!



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438945)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:22 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

didnt constantine crack down on marriage stuff bigly...but that was much latter and the die had already been cast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438957)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:03 PM
Author: hot doctorate blood rage

again, this is good news.

young white men are just being forced to opt out of the faggot mainstream media/culture bc its so over-the-top kiked.

accelerationism is a good thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438787)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

yea I know fewer and fewer white dudes willing to toe this line

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438792)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: hot doctorate blood rage

imagine the ones who are teens now.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438811)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: azure shaky brunch associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438734)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo

Your OP about the circumstances of who ends up in journalism has been true for at least 20 years, btw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438735)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:00 PM
Author: vigorous senate

this has to be a post-Internet development

strangely, # of newspaper subscriptions technically peaked in 1993-1994. but the real internet dropoff started after 2004

http://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/newspapers/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438766)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:21 PM
Author: Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo

Circulation is plummeting but readership remains relatively high when you incorporate the online numbers. The problem is that newspapers were way to slow to recognize they needed to charge online readers for subscriptions because the big online readership numbers didn't result in large enough ad revenue. They just kept chasing larger online audiences instead of trying to recapture the lost subscription revenue online.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438950)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:01 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

Maybe longer. But it seems like things have gotten worse. In the old days, you would have kids who went to the University of Missouri's J-school or went to UT or wherever. Those days are gone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438774)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:05 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted poppy headpube

and for a long time after there were still substantial amounts of boomers around who had only high school and came from blue collar families. sort of the same way that the left used to be with labor and union leaders. now it's just a bunch of over-educated, under-experienced sanctimonious coastal rich kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438799)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

Exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438819)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: Painfully Honest Garrison Tattoo

Journalism became a professional class job after Watergate.

Entry-level salaries were better in the 80s relative to what they are today, but they've been very low for a long time. You have to go back to the 60s to find the blue collar reporters coming in.

What's changed in the last 10-15 years and probably has made the situation worse is the career prospects have diminished significantly as newspapers are shrinking and closing. You've seen a ton of people exit the industry in the last 20 years without being replaced.

That's exacerbated what OP is noting, but it's really not fundamentally different.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438911)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted poppy headpube

a lot of them have "life experience" in the sense that they're well-traveled third culture kids

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438761)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:05 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

I am skeptical that this is the case. Maybe an elite few. But even if that is the case, it is possibly worse in my opinion. These people are literally rootless cosmopolitans who can't identify with the concerns and lives of common Americans. And then get confused by the rise of Trump.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438802)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:07 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted poppy headpube

i know many of these. a lot of the type who bounces around all over the place from publication to publication for internships and small contracts are like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438829)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:01 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

jfc at these 22 year old bratty girls screaming at public figures like they were last chad to break their heart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438776)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:05 PM
Author: white aromatic background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438804)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

Musk's trolling of the media has really been inflaming them. They are definitely out to get him now. More public figures need to fight back.

http://time.com/5289630/elon-musk-media-twitter-rant-tesla/

“They’re just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously,” Musk tweeted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438907)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted poppy headpube

lmao i loved that tweet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438914)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 10:15 PM
Author: white aromatic background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36441278)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: nofapping stage

JFC, XO is now siding with fucking elon musk, who has all but announced his plans to turn us all into food and/or glue for his immortality project?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438974)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

this is how libs think folks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36438979)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:29 PM
Author: white aromatic background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439009)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:39 PM
Author: Comical kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439097)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: pink dragon

It's hard to make money in the news business with the internet and social media. Google and Facebook take a big chunk of your ad revenue and then you have a billion people and other publications sharing/stealing your news instantly. It's especially difficult to make money as a sober, level-headed, above-it-all publication. So traditional media is going the way of partisan media outlets and squeezing out nickels and dimes.

Bloomberg is an exception. They can play the intelligent moderate because their revenue stream largely comes from other sources.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439106)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 4:49 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Stead

(Noah Smith)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439167)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 5:38 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

Look at the insight we are gaining with this new crop of journalists. If there is one thing Communist regimes were uniformly opposed to it was large prison systems. That and draconian state violence.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot

Also, being a communist means being a fierce critic of the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex. The expanded use of drone warfare and the expansive use of deportation under Obama. You can be a vocal critic of all those things, while also looking at how Trump [has done them] because, quite simply, he was able to build on a lot of Obama's legacy, particularly in terms of executive overreach. He's been able to pursue extreme, draconian forms of state violence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439491)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 5:46 PM
Author: twinkling out-of-control circlehead fanboi

The fuck?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439536)



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Date: July 16th, 2018 5:49 PM
Author: white aromatic background story

She is shaping the opinions of her 100K followers on Twitter. The lack of historical knowledge that can make anyone state something like this is mind blowing.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027517&forum_id=2#36439555)