Ah yes, the classic wealthy journalist. Everyone knows that reporting is where the big bucks truly lie. I guess it's impossible for literally anyone living anywhere but the like 3 countries that pretend to be communist to report on anything accurately.

Is literally poking at the propaganda model described by Herman and Chomsky. The point isn't that any individual journalist is so loaded that they write to defend their wealth. It's that they're selected for their jobs, and are even considered for them in the first place, because they usefully slot into said jobs for the capitalist owners of the journalism outlets. With a few exceptions most of the journalists at, your choice [NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Time, etc], are there because their pre-existing beliefs. Perfectly exemplified in this Chomsky clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU

"I don't say you're self-censoring. I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is if you believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

And they all went to the same ivy league schools that churn out clones for alphabet agencies and DC.

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