{"id":1289377,"date":"2022-02-10T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1289377"},"modified":"2022-02-10T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T22:12:21","slug":"why-wouldnt-they-hate-us-fmr-rolling-stone-editor-admits-why-many-americans-hate-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-wouldnt-they-hate-us-fmr-rolling-stone-editor-admits-why-many-americans-hate-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why Wouldn\u2019t They Hate Us\u2019: Fmr Rolling Stone Editor Admits Why Many Americans Hate Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-wouldnt-they-hate-us-fmr-rolling-stone-editor-admits-why-many-americans-hate-journalists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1289377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Speaking with podcast host Russell Brand, former Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi explained one reason for many Americans having contempt for journalists, asserting, \u201cThey see us as people who write about them as hicks and losers and idiots and who are not on their side. And why <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> they hate us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brand asked if there was a base of a \u201cprofessional class of people\u201d that doesn\u2019t like \u201csort of working-class people.\u201d Taibbi answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I think a ton of this has to do with class and certain natural class antipathy. Just in my business, when my father was coming up in journalism in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s, journalists were not upper class people; it was more like a trade than a profession. The people who worked the newspaper, they were more like the sons and daughters of plumbers and electricians. They were never Ivy-League educated rich people. And then a lot of things happened, including the movie \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d and it became like a sexy profession for upper-class people to go into.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I went into journalism, it was all people like me, it was upper-class kids who had gone to good schools and whose attraction to the job was being close to figures in power,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey wanted to be kind of behind the rope line; they wanted to have a beer with Hillary Clinton\u2019s aide at night. That was sort of their ambition in life was to socially hang out with all these people and they did not have a connection to the ordinary working class person, which journalists once did because they <em>were<\/em> those people; that\u2019s where they came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He delineated how former President Trump sensed during the 2016 campaign the genuine anger much of the American electorate had for journalists:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>So I saw this very graphically in 2016; I covered Trump\u2019s campaign and we would be going from place to place. If you\u2019ve ever been to a campaign event, the press is usually on a riser in the middle of the hall and they\u2019re kind of roped off and they look like zoo animals; they\u2019re on display in this really uncomfortable way. And everybody inside the press section looks like an upper-class nerd; they wear the same smart glasses; they wear the same corny Urban Outfitters outfits, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And Trump picked up early in the campaign on the fact that the people in the hall did not like the people on the risers. And he started to \u2014like a comedian, he started to feel out the crowd a little bit, and he would say things like, \u201cLook at those bloodsuckers; they hate me; they hate you; they want nothing more than for me to lose\u201d \u2026 and people would turn toward us; they\u2019d throw stuff at us, and a lot of people inside the press section couldn\u2019t handle it and didn\u2019t understand it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was saying, \u2018What about this doesn\u2019t make sense? Of <em>course <\/em>they hate us,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cThey see us as people who write about them as hicks and losers and idiots and who are not on their side. And why <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> they hate us, right? And this is \u2014 this is \u2014 this is the fundamental cultural divide in America. It\u2019s between upper-class, college-educated, mostly cosmopolitan city people and kind of everybody else. And there is, the \u2014 you know, the \u2014 the \u2014 the media class in particular, it just does \u2014 it has no idea what people in red states or out there think like or what they\u2019re like, what \u2014 what they care about, what their lives are like, what \u2014 what working three jobs to support kids without health insurance. They just don\u2019t know. There\u2019s this natural tendency to have all kinds of fantasies about what those people are like and they\u2019re often wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with podcast host Russell Brand, former Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi explained one reason for many Americans having contempt for journalists, asserting, \u201cThey see us as people who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}