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Hate the Media? How Do You Like Things Now?
We laid off most reporters and shut down lots of newspapers, and now society is just wonderful
Sometime around 2010, I sat at my newsroom desk and read a quote that went something like this:
“Wait until people who hate the news media see what’s going to replace it.”
It’s OK to hate reporters
You’ve probably seen the infamous pro-lynching T-shirt that says “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.” It’s OK, though — the wearers are only advocating the murder of journalists, not good people.
As everybody knows, journalists are terrible people who feed on the tragedies of others for money. They are a flock of vultures who will do anything to sell papers.
I found it irritating to hear such insults while eating a lunch of peanut butter sandwiches or leftovers at my desk.
The dichotomy between journalists and media owners
If you own a major media outlet or are a top executive at one, you are rich. If you work as a journalist — unless you are part of a very tiny minority of celebrity talking heads — you probably make working class wages.
