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In the US, it tends to be a result of capitalist gatekeeping. Journalism requires unpaid or poorly paid internships, doesn’t pay a lot, and sets a high bar on access to jobs (journalism degree + experience), that keeps out oiks.
That’s why we had all the “Cletus safaris” of Columbia grads venturing, pith hat on, into the wilds of Ohio to interview Trump supporters. They couldn’t imagine that people in their class would vote for or support Trump, so they had to go explore East Bumfuck for people who matched their conception of what a Trump voter is. Whereas someone who’d come up poor might have a much more realistic view of who Trump supporters are.
1000000%- as a literal Columbia Journalism grad (80k in debt later…), this is almost complete true. There are comrades too, but lots of libby west-wing types. I will say, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the class consciousness of some of my colleagues. at least when it comes to how our own office is run
