{"id":292,"date":"2005-07-06T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_times_prole_rat_threat.html"},"modified":"2005-07-06T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T23:44:45","slug":"the_times_prole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_times_prole.html","title":{"rendered":"The Times’ Prole Rat Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate’s Jack Shafer commits to print (or pixel, as the case may be) what we’ve long assumed to be true about New York journalists in a piece from last week about the Times’ recent Class Matters series<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Journalists are notoriously sensitive to matters of class and status, especially a New York journalist with a $125,000 salary that might make him an object of envy to a reporter living in Lansing, Mich., but that stigmatizes him as a knuckle-dragging proletarian on his home turf. Rising housing prices, high taxes, pressures to enroll children in private schools and dress fashionably, et al., contribute to a permanent state of status anxiety in many New York-based Times and Journal reporters and editors. Financial journalists in New York have their noses rubbed into their relative pauperhood on a daily\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsometimes hourly\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbasis by the lawyers, hedge-fund traders, business executives, and investment bankers they report on. If they’re blue about class in America, you can’t blame them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Specifically, I’ve often wondered who exactly the audience is for some Times stories — the real obnoxious ones, the ones that by all rights the 92.5 percent of the rest of us (journalists included!) shouldn’t really understand<\/a>. And sometimes you get to thinking that 92.5 percent of us (journalists included!) are just millions of court jesters sitting around this big castle with that funny Indian name — those rivers are the moat!<\/p>\n

NB: Credit<\/a> where due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slate’s Jack Shafer commits to print (or pixel, as the case may be) what we’ve long assumed to be true about New York journalists in a piece from last week about the Times’ recent Class Matters series: Journalists are notoriously sensitive to matters of class and status, especially a New York journalist with a $125,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}