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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/no_author/just-how-bad-is-legacy-media/

Just How Bad Is Legacy Media?
Very very very bad

By Elizabeth Nickson

In my first year at Time Magazine, I was sitting in the Miami airport with my bf, who had had already a starry career, Moscow, Berlin, White House correspondent, and we were chatting away happily with a couple of women of indeterminate age. I had just escaped snowy London; the house in which I lived had no central heating because my landlady felt that “central heating kills a house”. So I was ebullient and finally, not cold.

“What do you two do?” one finally asked. “We work at Time magazine,” I chirruped like an idiot. I felt rather than saw a sharp recoil from said boyfriend and within a second their attitudes had shifted. It was like Kennedys had dropped from heaven into their lives. They were in awe of us; it was awful.

Today, the attitude would be of instant dislike and contempt, which would probably flare to anger. The only people who “like” the media are the ones who work in it and those languishing in some subsidized charmed circle of the obvious-to-them superior types. The rest of us?

We loathe the media. Loathe. ......