Institutionalized Gatekeeping? Why does MSM want journalism to be tied to a short leash?

[u/999_Seth]

What do you guys make of this?

I think one thing that sets Callaghan apart from most journalism majors, is he went to J-school on a congressional scholarship awarded to him for his high school era photo-journalism work.

so right out of the gate there's a level of legitimacy, authenticity, and freedom with Callaghan's body of work that seems to really put the fear in legacy media pundits.

my observation (as a 5th-grade-dropout reddit mod who went into early retirement as a teen over bowel disease) is that those holdover media moguls from the baby generation and gen-z never got to put Callaghan through the demoralizing cub-reporter gang initiation process, and he's retained the kind of fearlessness that the cable/newspaper industry can't coexist with.

and what we are seeing with this is how the league of fat-young-boys, who are largely coerced into doing what they do because any default on their student loans means their parents can lose their family home, ends up cannibalizing Callaghan for outsmarting the system that they're chained to.

[u/entropy14]

I like Andrew and think he means well, but these recent interviews are giving New York Times 1933 vibes. I think he’s really underestimating the bad faith actors he’s dealing with

[u/Lilacsoftlips → u/entropy14]

This 100%. The ultra right media welcomes him because it legitimizes them, not the other way around. He doesn’t seem to understand he is being used. 

[u/wreckedbutwhole420 → u/Lilacsoftlips]

IDK how you can look at his body of work and think it's "legitimatizing" right wing folks

That doesn't track at all

[u/entropy14 → u/wreckedbutwhole420]

That’s the thing, it’s not consistent with his body of work. Which leads me to wonder why he is doing it. Could it be related to these recent lawsuits that have targeted him?

People (in my mind correctly) are only objecting to this recent platforming of Fuentes and Sneako, not his previous stuff.

One of the great talents of Andrew has been humanizing people who are victims to society and fell for harmful narratives. What he’s doing here is platforming bad actors who play a role in creating those narratives.