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• anachronist@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think when these journalists keep expressing “confusion” about why the public loves Luigi, are they just pretending to not understand? Or perhaps they’re so fucking cooked that they can’t see things from the perspective of the class that they’re in?

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  • exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats something i wonder too. My answer is that many of the unwilling participants within capitalism are delusional and believe that they are capitalists when being a capitalist means you would have capital so that means these people are nothing more than exploited workers with severe Stockholm syndrome. People like this writer believe they are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hardly unique to people living under capitalism though. Most people tend to identify with the system they are living under, including systems that are much worse than ours.

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      • exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Capitalism is the only system that promises people the ultra slim a d unlikely chance to become as wealthy as those who exploit the poor. what systems, besides capitalism in third world countries are worse than capitalism at its core? Where greed and ruthlessness are praised above virtuous ethical pursuits

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  • drwho@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They also have to keep their editors happy. One of an editor’s jobs is to push back on the folks who write articles, and occasionally rewrite parts of them. And the editors have folks above them in the food chain pulling the strings. News companies aren’t monoliths, they’re spiderwebs of people pushing and pulling on other people because there are obligations all over the place.

    To put it another way, “You can’t say that or you’re fired. You’ll never work in this city again.” And, because there aren’t many celebrity journalists, it’s a very real risk.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sadly, “you’ll never work in this city again” has been true for my entire career. What are you going to do? Walk across Main Street to the other paper?

      But it has never been an editor’s job to “push back on the folks who write articles,” which I thought would be the worst part of that sentence; literally, rewriting is what editors do. We don’t push back on staff, we push back on copy. A minor omission here, a glaring hole there, and – as a last resort – spiking a story until questions are answered.

      No one has felt any job security in this industry for at least 15 years. “You can’t say that” probably cuts both ways at this point.

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