@leftistlegume do you really think the NYT recruits working class journalists? Not the sons and daughters of well-connected socialite families who can get their kids into Yale? The culture there will reflect that regardless of how much control the journalists have over editing and which stories to publish. That’s why they recruit from the elite in the first place.
@destroy @leftistlegume They recruit from 'the elite', but not exclusively the elite who sustain themselves by ownership; at least some proportion of the 'elite' they hire do actually have to find some kind of work for a living, which makes them (at least potentially) part of the working class, right? The part that I'm worried about isn't 'elite culture' stuff so much as the 'guard labour' component of any kind of media job.
@destroy @leftistlegume Eg plenty of cops 'come from working class backgrounds' rather than 'Yale', but the fact that they are employed as guard labour (and like, strikebreakers) means that they will basically always be a problem for organised labour no matter how strong the police union is; the question isn't 'are the journalists coastal elites' or whatever, but 'are the journalists guard labour'.
@destroy no i don't think that, by and large, nyt recruits working class journalists. but i've also heard of certain stories being quashed, certain sources being ignored because of "journalistic standards," certain people getting unquestioned access to editorials. it of course wouldn't solve the problem overnight, but if working conditions improve then i'm sure journalistic practices would too. it's not a binary of either they're good or they're evil