{"id":376,"date":"2004-07-13T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=376"},"modified":"2004-07-13T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T08:39:29","slug":"class-instincts-of-the-media-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2004\/07\/13\/class-instincts-of-the-media-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Instincts of the Media Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.dailyhowler.com\/dh070904.shtml\">Read this Daily Howler entry<\/a> on how Fahrenheit 911 brings out the class instincts of the media elite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moore brings a powerful class perspective to Fahrenheit 9\/11\u2014a perspective rarely seen, and often punished, in our celebrity press corps. It is rarely expressed for an obvious reason. Our modern press is itself a high elite; despite pious tales about Buffalo boyhoods, its opinion leaders are all multimillionaires, and even hard-charging young elite scribes know they\u2019re on the millionaire track\u2014and they\u2019re careful not to blow it by getting outside the narrow confines of their elders\u2019 world view. Most of these upscale scribes have little class perspective to suppress in the first place. But beyond that, they have no incentive to challenge their group\u2019s perspectives, and that helps explain the nasty treatment Moore\u2019s film has received in the press. After all, is there any elite more phony and fake than the one that is currently trashing Moore\u2019s film? And make no mistake\u2014these overpaid and pampered poodles tend to identify, not with Moore, but with the powdered phonies he mocks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this Daily Howler entry on how Fahrenheit 911 brings out the class instincts of the media elite. Moore brings a powerful class perspective to Fahrenheit 9\/11\u2014a perspective rarely seen, and often punished, in our celebrity press corps. It is rarely expressed for an obvious reason. Our modern press is itself a high elite; despite&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2004\/07\/13\/class-instincts-of-the-media-elite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Class Instincts of the Media Elite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-64","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}