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A quotation from Molly Ivins

That’s why it’s called Establishment journalism. You concentrate on the people at the top, the people with power; you watch, you study how they make their moves, you get fascinated by it, and pretty soon you can’t see anything else — just the top, just the power. And the others, the people, the readers, matter so little that you don’t even bother to let them know what’s going on. You start to think like the people you cover. It can happen on any beat — business, police, politics, education. The stuff you want is from the top — you want to quote the chief, the superintendent, the chairman of the board. There are no reliable sources who earn less than $10,000 a year.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ivins-molly/76404/

#capture : the act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem

- French: Capturer

- German: der Fang, fangen

- Italian: catturare

- Portuguese: capturar

- Spanish: capturar

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"US is in its #crisis in no small part bec its #political institutions make it more structurally susceptible to populist #capture of #government than oth Western democracies. Its parties, thx to their free-for-all presidential primaries & weak orgz'nal wings, r on paper(GOP, in reality) prone to being hijacked by charismatic outsiders. A rigid 2-party sys created by an unrepresentative, winner-take-all electoral sys reinforces partisan & ideo polarisation"
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