The Changing Media Landscape

American legacy media are increasingly abandoning middle-class values and instead tailoring their content to the taste of the elite class.

The firing of Fox News host Tucker Carlson exemplifies the issue.

In this week’s cover story, read how veteran industry professionals view the shift.

“I think there’s been a trend of the news media making decisions contrary to its own financial interests, and that tells you there’s something else, or somebody else, calling the shots,” says Sharyl Attkisson, an independent journalist formerly with CBS News.

Attkisson describes the phenomenon of media bosses stopping stories, leading reporters to understand which stories they can touch and which they can’t.

The consolidation of media organizations in the digital era has only made matters more complicated.

And while journalism used to be a blue collar job, “the journalist class has become part of the elite, and so they see the world through an elite lens,” says Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor at Newsweek.

The elite’s distaste for middle-class values puts constraints on freedom of expression. Stray from their ideology and they will “make it impossible for you to ever have your opinion again,” says Ungar-Sargon.

As a result, corporate media today are relying solely on their politically homogenous audience to survive.

Read more about how the media are divorcing from the people, in this week’s cover story.

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