To discourage New Yorkers from voting for Zohran Mamdani, the Wall Street Journal published ten op-eds in a single week casting him in a negative light.
So for starters, I agree with Chomsky broadly here, he isn’t wrong that… its good to keep up on what a class or segment of people read if you want to know how their brains work, how they think, what they often do not even realize they hold as unchallengeable beliefs… and that when you’re in a cultural (?) space for corpos, you get to see what they’re actually worried about, vs what they project outward to a more general, mass audience.
To specifically answer your question:
No, it hasn’t changed that much.
WSJ, FT, The Economist…
yeah, they’re all generally in that same boat, I am just telling you as a former corpo, former executive level data analyst, that most of what is in those is basically just the bougie version of a gossip rag, lifestyle pieces.
A bougie lifestyle piece just is the latest ‘enlightened’ perspective to have on monetary nterest rate policy or whatever.
Its like Patrick Bateman.
Most of them don’t really care, beyond perfecting the brand that is their own corporate persona.
The people that actually know what they are talking about may yes, read these occasionally, semi-regularly, just to generally keep abreast of things, but the really powerful data and announcements are in industry journals, and most of the time, the really important conversations and missives are not publicly available.
If you have access to or know how to read those, you have a 90% chancd of knowing what the FT, WSJ, and Economist are going to be talking about in 6 weeks to 6 months.
So for starters, I agree with Chomsky broadly here, he isn’t wrong that… its good to keep up on what a class or segment of people read if you want to know how their brains work, how they think, what they often do not even realize they hold as unchallengeable beliefs… and that when you’re in a cultural (?) space for corpos, you get to see what they’re actually worried about, vs what they project outward to a more general, mass audience.
To specifically answer your question:
No, it hasn’t changed that much.
WSJ, FT, The Economist…
yeah, they’re all generally in that same boat, I am just telling you as a former corpo, former executive level data analyst, that most of what is in those is basically just the bougie version of a gossip rag, lifestyle pieces.
A bougie lifestyle piece just is the latest ‘enlightened’ perspective to have on monetary nterest rate policy or whatever.
Its like Patrick Bateman.
Most of them don’t really care, beyond perfecting the brand that is their own corporate persona.
The people that actually know what they are talking about may yes, read these occasionally, semi-regularly, just to generally keep abreast of things, but the really powerful data and announcements are in industry journals, and most of the time, the really important conversations and missives are not publicly available.
If you have access to or know how to read those, you have a 90% chancd of knowing what the FT, WSJ, and Economist are going to be talking about in 6 weeks to 6 months.
That’s very interesting, thanks