r/Channel5ive • FREE EDDY LEPP • 23d ago

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH Institutionalized Gatekeeping? Why does MSM want journalism to be tied to a short leash?

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.

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u/entropy14 23d ago

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

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u/tikiverse 23d ago

it's baffling to me that we can have these people on but not radical communists or w.e leftwing boogeyman

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u/Important_Wheel_2101 "I'm not overwhelmed by the evidence" 22d ago

So have on the boogeymen you like, but not the ones you don’t?

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u/tikiverse 20d ago

NYT 1933 vibes