Instead so many view their job as reading the public's problems, looking out their own window, seeing none of those problems out there and then insisting they don't exist, aren't that bad, or been exaggerated by X group finally admitting they're real only when it's not just the poor affected.

A profession that chugs an incredible amount of koolaid about a nobility to their craft they for some reason think is inherent and not something to be demonstrated by their body of work. Trading access for uncritical repetition is the opposite of speaking truth to power.

I don't know if it's the over representation of the middle class in the sector but you get this sense from many that it's all a bit fun. Remind a politician of the harm a decision caused and there'll be several journos on hand to hush you and tell you it's more complex than that actually.

The transformation from respected journalist to royal courtier right before our eyes.

I imagine this gets amplified times a thousand on non-traditional media? Always concerned me how much of younger relatives media was YouTube where there's just zero guarantee of pride taken in the work / a duty felt towards the audience.

If you just make sure your wolf only eats particularly annoying and dishonest children no one will care that much and likely blame the child for their fate or so the story goes.

Part of me wants to believe I've made this up and it's a Mandela effect but I refuse to verify it due to the psychic damage its truth would cause me.