“In cases like mine, when someone from an impoverished background makes it to the kind of elite institutions from which top newspapers and magazines hire staff, there is a tendency, I think, to want to fit in by obscuring one’s background.” As a result, he says, the rare working-class reporters “who somehow make it through that gantlet” start representing “poverty and class through the same lens” as their more privileged media peers.
We definitely need more working class media. Not privileged white kids behind computer screens, but people who know what it's like to work menial labor jobs, and suffer under minimum wage. The closest MIGHT be local ethnic publications, maybe the Final Call, Street News, but certainly nothing that you'll find widespread.
We definitely need more working class media. Not privileged white kids behind computer screens, but people who know what it's like to work menial labor jobs, and suffer under minimum wage. The closest MIGHT be local ethnic publications, maybe the Final Call, Street News, but certainly nothing that you'll find widespread.