Good point about decadent bourgeois journalism. I suspect that today - if you have a spark of decency and intellectual integrity- there is no place for you in the mainstream news media. No Walter Cronkites around today - at least to prick the conscience of the ruling class. They don't want to hear it: a world in which THEY are on top is the best of all possible worlds. So " history is bunk " . A whole privileged class trembles before truths self-evident to any soul not polluted by make-a-buck capitalism. I think Trotsky wrote somewhere that even great ART is revolutionary. I am almost finished reading Zola's " Nana " . Zola's French working class of the late 19th century is not much different from the American working class in 2017. Some progress in sexual morality , I guess. A " respectable " French journalist was a big influence on Nana's " career ".
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