the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — the less likely journalists are to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
it becomes ever more uncomfortable to be the comfortable's affliction, and ever more comfortable to cheerlead, rationalize, and deflect from all that the comfortable afflict.
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@Hyolobrika Depends how much the humans like food, shelter, health, and education for their children?
"Like money" sounds like luxury, like you can just choose not to be greedy. I think that's not a great characterization of the situation.
@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika Individual journalists choose whether to be employable.
Under plutocracy, what those overarching structures define as employable, who they hire and promote, who they slough off as unprofessional and unreasonable, is shaped by the plutocrats who ultimately own them.
Sure, we should hold the plutocrats morally culpable, more than the individual journalists who have to eat. But plutocracy shapes choices and outcomes at every level.