By Zaid Jilani
Following the 2016 election, New York Times Executive Editor
Dean Baquet reflected on his industry’s coverage of the country. “If I
have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it’s that we’ve got to
do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking
to different kinds of people than we talk to — especially if you happen
to be a New York-based news organization — and remind ourselves that New
York is not the real world,” he said.
It has been a longstanding criticism of the news media that at least
some portions of it are too culturally and socially insular. A recent study published in the Journal of Expertise adds some data points to that thesis.
Authors Jonathan Wai, a research fellow at Geisinger Health System at
the Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, and Kaja Perina, the
editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, collected a sample of 1,979
employees working at two of America’s most prominent and influential
newspapers, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, during 2016.
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Source: The Intercept
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