Thanks for submitting that link. It was a very interesting perspective although I doubt that the author (or Bourdieu, or both) really understands the nature of

Thanks for submitting that link. It was a very interesting perspective although I doubt that the author (or Bourdieu, or both) really understands the nature of the Art MarketS (with a capital S to emphasize that it is not just one market but several, with similarities and differences). Eg, in the text it is presented as if the actual producer (artist) is somehow involved in the value adding while in most Art markets I know of the production is really removed from the actual value chain and the market is largely a market that adds value starting on the second sale, ie. after the producer has lost touch with the value chain. Also, Art as such was really tangential to the subject matter of Media and Journalism. So, that part of the article could have been left out, as it brings no extra clarity - especially as the main point was not really about market value for the product (neither Journalism nor Art) but instead market value for the producer (either "Artist" or "Liberal Arts Graduate" on a totally different market: The Job Market. Still, it was an interesting read, and it did add another piece to the puzzle of "understanding some of the reasons we as a civilization are steadily losing our grip on reality" (here, I assume that "we" and "civilization" is lacking the unstated specifier "USA/American")