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EL's avatar

Man these two guests media people need to take a sabbatical and go do any job where they're actually held accountable.

The constant deflecting the inability to just say "Yeah we messed up on latinx, this is why, and here's how we can fix it next time"

But no just "Industry trends 🤷"

Stay dying Media.

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This was a really interesting podcast, and it made me more positive that the mainstream media has no clue how much they are actually hated and despised. And these two guests pretending to masquerade as centrist reasonable media skeptics speaking out of both sides of their mouths.

This whole thing felt like a murderers brother on the witness stand blaming the weather, an influx of people wearing cargo shorts in culture, and irritating tonal inflections of the victim for the murder committed. And really their brother was just caught naturally responding to the conditions at play. And looking the victims family in the eye and saying when in history did murder not happen. With an added weird tone of condescension like these are obviously the appropriate culprits.

Really you can tell who they are attributing “agency” to which really shows their bias. The mainstream media had no “agency” and other forces did. Obviously lots of forces were at play, but I recommend that these two really take a hard look at how they attribute agency relative to themselves, the profession, and others.

Elitists arise from an interesting tension between the agency they attribute to themselves vs others, and how much they try to exert their world view, vs the accountability they have for its flaws.

To speak to the dismissals of the Latin X and other cultural trends hammered down our throats 3 years ago and then toned down recently. They forget that our HR departments and cultural institutions lag a few years behind the “coastal elite news” and just now our smug hr class is using the articles you all wrote in 2020-22 to say “this is established truth” now. And it’s great that y’all have moved on, but it’s kind of like you guys are the mouth chewing up all of this news turning it into “narrative” commenting on it’s complex “mouth-feel” and how interesting it all is, but the rest of us are all the anus dealing with the repercussions of you eating crispy creams for the last 4 years.

But don’t worry you just ate an apple… so we all good.

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