How Journalism Abandoned the Working Class

The headquarters for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
What explains the media's obsession with race and power? It has very little to do with social justice and everything to do with class.
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If you read this newsletter you are acutely aware of the transformation of the mainstream media over the last decade and, especially, over the past couple of years. But few have offered a fully satisfying answer to the question of why.
Why is it, for example, that between 2013 and 2019, the frequency of the words “white” and “racial privilege” exploded …
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