UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
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And also: how many aspiring journalists from outside the capital can afford to move down there to even get in the door these days? No family to live with, not paid enough to cover the cost of living. But it's fine, we can send Joshie Plum-Duff up to do one of his poverty safaris if we need to.
And considering the right wing media has done nothing but cry about Alison Pearson getting even mild pushback for being racist. The whole thing is so self centred its disgusting
You might be right but in the spirit of this wonderful friendly new world of bluesky, let's not pile on journalists. We don't have to take thier advice, we can block who we want or not. Here we are free🤣
And as Frances Ryan pointed out recently, there aren't even proper records of number of journalists with a disability. She's thought to be the first wheelchair user to have a newspaper column & is one of the 1st physically disabled people in a high-profile role at a UK paper https://bsky.app/profile/francesryan.bsky.social/post/3lat7vk2c7s2w
And when one leaves a broadsheet for, say, GBeebies, the well-wishing and backslaps keep rolling in. Nary a ‘what the utter fuck are you doing, you colossal donger?’ to be seen.
Same in Canada. Liberals insist they represent everyone, while almost all belong to a class of people with inherited wealth. 'Economy booming! So all okay!' ('Oh, there are a few poor people, that's so hurtful, we wish them well.')
Also, they make a living sifting through the culture war bullshit so my message to them is “fill your boots, you’re getting paid but the rest of us are sick of it so I’ll block as I see fit”
I was reading the wiki entry for Spike Lee's malcolm x and they asked whenever possible could a black journalist do the press runs and more than once it made them realise they had no black journos.
Even the black and asian ones virtually all went to public school and Oxbridge. Without wanting to sound Fascistic, it’s the working class who are unrepresented.
They believe the privileges of birth, nepotism, and education entitles them to be heard regardless of whether they have anything to say. They mostly only get sad and angry about echo chambers when left or black or queer spaces don't want more of the same shit saturating the UK media landscape.
They are so privileged they cannot understand why 100,000s have left for a platform that doesn't pander to them and that they will actually have to work to get our interest.
YES! They don’t interact and they need to. Get a consultant if you are so busy, you pundits. Or try a response. It won’t kill you. Just a few. Become a reader of bios or a laugher at wit or understanding. Or a thinker of additional insight offering.
Unless you're transgender, then both your existence and human rights are to be debated daily & endlessly, always without the inclusion of transgender people's voices & opinions.
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More preachy, I think
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan-exley-608b4317_livedexperience-dei-communityorganising-activity-7259908639908376578-eRN6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Can you recommend journalists outside the usual bubble for me to follow ?
There's the occasional transphobe but most people take my side.
Everyone is represented from spineless liberals all the way to raging fascists!
I tried to somewhat articulate the rebuttal on the echo chamber accusation here but your point enriches my view point on it
https://open.substack.com/pub/quietpartlouder/p/bluesky-isnt-twitter-and-thats-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=17chrd
They actively shut down any trans voices.
Plus, there are things that are simply not up for debate. Like human rights.
(n that "50% are in London" is unrepresentative of the populace, he typed, in London.)
https://bsky.app/profile/bsazzled.bsky.social