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Alexander Hay's avatar

'Spose it's worth noting how so much journalism depends on press releases and 'on-diary' events.

In UK journalism, the culture is incurious, aligned to the status quo (regardless of professed politics) and anti-intellectual, even with growing numbers of journalists with degrees in that topic. (Their lecturers, after all, are often old school journalists.)

Therefore, I'm not sure it's completely down to class and background, though they play a major role. Rather, it's whether or not you fit into existing mindsets within the industry - a lot like the police...

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Jason Robinson's avatar

All good points and questions. All of this is why I think ProPublica is so important, since they're one of the few (large) journalistic entities that is actually trying to do stories about topics that impact people's lives.

I've subscribed and am looking forward to future newsletters. HT to Dan Froomkin for plugging your twitter feed, which led me here.

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