Out of Touch

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Blue-collar work

“Media elites rightly talk about our insufficient racial, ethnic and gender diversity, but we also lack economic diversity. We inhabit a middle-class world and don’t adequately cover the part of America that is struggling and seething. We spend too much time talking to senators, not enough to the jobless.” 

—Nicholas Kristof, columnist, “My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump,” The New York Times, March 26, 2016

• Editorial Comment: Hey, there are a lot of out-of-work journos who might talk to you. Some of them are seething.


PeezPix by Ted Pease

The Google says I’ve used too much space to post any more photos, so to see these duck butts, you’ll have to click here. Has anybody heard of that?



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