The People's Line

The People's Line

The future of bourgeois press and the end of the media elite

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Carl Beijer
Apr 28, 2016
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Today, the bourgeois press still relies on personal brands as a marketing strategy. We have star columnists and journalists with distinct voices and so on, and publications pay them large salaries and give enormously outsized personal platforms, and readers have particular favorites who they follow from outlet to outlet. To get in these positions, you h…

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