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The WSJ's journalism side isn't its editorial board. They're the same youngish college grads and old lifers as everywhere else.
by klooney 3y ago
The WSJ's journalism side isn't its editorial board. They're the same youngish college grads and old lifers as everywhere else.
- TheAtomic 3y agoYou might want to rethink your perspective on this. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy...
- hiatus 3y ago> Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession; we’re an elite-college-dominated profession. Only 0.8 percent of college students graduate from the super-elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation. Great that one journalist is self-aware but I'm not sure the opinion of a single journalist warrants a change in perspective here.
- nerdponx 3y agoIt's also David Brooks, Who has exemplified out-of-touch upper-class centrist conservatism for as long as I've known his name. Maybe he's having a moment of redeeming clarity, or maybe he's just being hypocritical.