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2023-08-29 -Great Cultural Revolution
Boston Talk Host Howie Carr Describes How Journalism Used to be Blue Collar But is Now Ruled by Liberal Elites (AUDIO)
[Gateway] Conservative Boston talk radio host Howie Carr recently spoke to Breitbart News during their podcast.

Part of their conversation was about how the media landscape has changed over the years. Carr pointed out that years ago, journalism was filled with working class people, some of whom would eventually work their way up to greater positions. Now it is dominated by politically connected liberal elites.

Carr uses specific examples like Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd as people who are directly connected to Democrat politics.

Exclusive — Howie Carr Chronicles Journalism’s Shift from Blue-Collar to Elitist Trade: ’They’re Writing for the Powers That Be’

Syndicated Boston radio host Howie Carr appeared on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday, where he offered his perspective on how the news industry has moved from a working-class trade, in which reporters worked their way up from local outlets to larger platforms, to one that is now dominated by elites who serve as lapdogs to those in power.

"I mean, the, you know, newspapers in the old days, it was a sort of a working-class, blue-collar trade," Carr explained. "And after Watergate, it just the sort of the upper classes, the elites, the legacy started moving into it, and it’s totally different now...

"Jake Tapper, you know, he worked for Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, and she was married to a corrupt congressman, and she was a congresswoman," Carr said of Marjorie Margolies. "Or you have been Chuck Todd, who worked for stolen valor, Tom Harkin, a senator, or Stephanopoulos, who ran the bimbo eruptions unit for the Clinton campaign in ’92. I mean, that’s the farm system now... It’s not just the internet that’s destroyed newspapers. I think that there’s just nobody, there’s nobody left who — forget going to church or being in the military, these people don’t even know anyone who goes to church or is in the military."

You can listen to the whole thing below:
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-29 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Just view the famous movie "Front Page". The squad room where the action plays out is the home of what was then "Blue Collar Journalism." A replica of that movie would not make sense today.
Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-08-29 08:35||   2023-08-29 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 In today’s world, journalism is what you do if you believe your college teachers too much.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-29 11:29||   2023-08-29 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 ...bimbo eruptions...

I don't know what that means. I'm afraid I don't want to know.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-08-29 11:59||   2023-08-29 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 They can call it journalism if they want but what they'd doing these days is not journalism.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-08-29 12:00||   2023-08-29 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Except for some lame pinko labor sheets, reporters have been at least college eligible or some college, not "blue collar" since after WW II.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-29 12:18||   2023-08-29 12:18|| Front Page Top

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