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Month: September 2023

Why media stories focus on elite colleges

Why media stories focus on elite colleges

Partly because so many of those in the field went to elite schools, and partly because the major national news outlets like the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post are catering to their readers, who are the elite who also went to elite schools. But it’s hard not to suspect that there is also another reason for reporters’ focus on elite colleges: At least in major national media outlets, that’s where most of them went. There’s…

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Today’s media is indistinguishable from social media posts

Today’s media is indistinguishable from social media posts

Modern day “journalism” is about creative story telling of something they found on Reddit or Instagram where someone did something or said something to someone and the Internet reacts. Here’s a sample of such absurd “news stories” – and they wonder why people call it fake news?