* I also suspect that journalists know that a big downsizing is fast approaching for the entire journalist/media landscape. If Trump wins, how many billionaires decide that their discount propaganda outlets aren’t worth keeping afloat? The journalists have to announce their virtue to each other, but I suspect, they’re also advertising their loyalty as good thinking hacks to their de facto paymasters.
Or if Hillary wins, they’ll have served their purpose and there’ll be no need to keep them on staff anymore. I doubt Jeff Bezos or Carlos Slim care about the career prospects of the journalism grads in their employ.
A lot will end up unemployed so there’s an incentive to signal that you’re the most rabid attack dog against your sugar daddy’s corporate enemy. There’s no money in being reasonable or middle of the road if you know you’re dancing for your supper.
* Funniest part of the op-ed was this:
“Through his online writings and YouTube channel, Mr. Spencer is a key player in the social-media universe where this core group of Trump supporters get their “news,” from sources with which most people aren’t familiar”
Oh, no! Sources with which ‘most people aren’t familiar’! Mayday, mayday! Scare quotes around “news” – if only those idiotic Trump supporters weren’t so sub-literate and raaaaacist, they’d be tattooing Charles Blow’s prose on their body and awaiting the columns of our controlled opposition, David Brooks and Ross Douthat, like manna from heaven!
Blast the NPR and don’t you dare change the channel from PBS – the NYT editorial board’s mandatory re-education awaits!
