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by YEwSdObPQT
1588 days ago
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> This seems to be only about writing jobs. I don't think of those as "high status" apart from the wages, but maybe I'm alone here. You and I don't think of them as high status. However there is a proportion of people that do pay attention to writers, these maybe TV, films, media, politicians that are all within the "Cathedral". You see this a lot of Twitter. Politicians pay a lot of attention to Twitter and tbh I doubt many normal people ever pay attention to what people see on twitter. Those writing jobs are seen as high status because you can be influencing on "important" things. If you ever watch clips of corporate news talking point shows they end up inviting a lot of the same people on. Many of these are writers for smaller publications that are safe enough i.e. inside the Overton window to present "balance" or be presented as "experts". Simply being on TV for a few minutes is seen as a big deal (especially to older people 50+). |
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Both individual reporters and TV show producers develop a go to list of people who at least seem to know what they're talking about, usually don't have too much of an axe to grind, are presentable in the case of TV, etc. And, yes, to a lot of people they can't really imagine being invited on a TV show so someone who is "must be a real expert" which often isn't the case.