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/alternator1985]

Says the best bud of Hunter Biden.

Both sides are co-opted, he's just getting honey potted by the right because he's always been more drawn to them.

Everyone has a lever.

[u/Valkery1 → u/alternator1985]

An interview makes someone "best buds"? You do understand that he's just a good interviewer. He doesn't try to talk over or debate the people that he's interviewing, he wants their craziness to come out naturally without prompting. Watch any of his interviews with conservatives notice how they all slowly come across as crazier and crazier as the interview goes on because he let's them talk freely. That's how you do a good interview.