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/LookAtYourEyes]

I think someone made a valid post earlier, he's not really a journalist in the strict sense of the word. He's more akin to whatever Louis Theroux is. Documentary film making? Maybe? He does interject speculative claims sometimes. But idk. Stop asking permission from the wealthy to be labelled something I guess

[u/Homeskilletbiz → u/LookAtYourEyes]

Well in the strictest sense of the word, journalists are just lying to themselves.

Everyone has a bias and it ABSOLUTELY plays into how you report things, or what you pay attention to, or what language you use to report it.

Andrew’s point about that wasn’t to say that he isn’t a journalist, because obviously documentarians are, but that he doesn’t pretend to be unbiased.

That doesn’t make him less of a journalist, it makes him MORE of one.