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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a New Media System?

i think journalism is caught up in this big winners and losers thing. But i do want to push back on a little bit on what you said about people being increasingly less rooted. Being able to actually move is a very, very important luxury that some people have and other people don't. I live in the deep south, and it's impossible to overstate how irrelevant really a paper like the new york times of the washington post is. The cultural power of these institutions is still enormous, but it's completely alien to a place like southern mississippi. These institutions just don't matter here in the same way. Now that the latest nouncements from the c t s at

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