So I lurk a lot, both keep sane during the week, and to pick up some story ideas. I wanted to make this post a while ago and chickened out, but seeing that post about Maddow fawning over Biden's new dog made me want to try with this account again.
US media is absolutely a big-L Liberal institution. But you'd be surprised how many socialists, or socdems at least, write for smaller and mid-size newsrooms. So AMA about trying to be a reporter with leftist views in a decidedly anti-left racket, or about the inner workings of American news outlets that aren't CNN, MSNBC or Fox.
Believe me, if I could tell my editor to go fuck himself without getting fired and cover whatever the hell I wanted, I would. But until my newsroom is unionized, and that's a slow-moving work in progress, it's leverage I don't really have. It's my personal complicity in maintaining the status quo.
:rosa-salute: you know your situation best.