Based on this clip at least, the reporter doesn’t seem that bad. He might be awful elsewhere but he seems to me like a low-level field reporter who was probably just handed a list of questions to ask. He could just be apathetically following the herd here. That’s how a lot of this corporate media Marxist shit gets through actually - nobody in the room is truly gung-ho about it and wouldn’t actually pursue it on their own, but then the one feminist chick in the room brings up the latest corporate media Marxist talking point (i.e., body positivity for sex workers) and everyone else is too scared to say anything in opposition and suddenly some bureaucratic government agency is printing ten million pamphlets to promote “body positivity for sex workers”. But pull aside everyone in the production chain that made those pamphlets possible - the writer, the illustrator, the graphic designer, the printer, the producer - and ask them in secret, “Would you want your daughter to be a sex worker?” and they will all say no. Even the feminist who started the whole thing will only say yes in theory, but won’t really believe it. That will just be her brainwashing stubbornly taking over her common sense.
It’s easy to say that everyone in this production chain was a coward, and they all should have taken a stand and quit their job, but realistically, it doesn’t work that way. The typography guy just sets the text. They hand him some copy and he makes it look good. He works on leading, kerning, serifs, things like that. He takes his own position on body positivity for sex workers out of the equation. And even if he wanted to stand up, how would he do it? Say, “I refuse to set this type!”...? I guess. But the next gig is going to be another stupid PC thing, and the next one. And then there will be some normal gigs. An instruction manual or a cookbook. And eventually he justifies it. “I’m not going to walk out of my job when this same bullshit is everywhere anyway. The nonsense is unavoidable.” And every other person in the chain does the same thing. The printer just says to himself, “I don’t care about the content. That’s my client’s business. I just focus on print quality.” The photographer says, “I just take good pictures.” The guy at Coke in charge of bottling doesn’t care one way or another about white, black, brown, or what the Coca-Cola HR Diversity & Inclusion department is doing. He’s like, “I just make sure the bottles come off the assembly line correctly and in time.”
Based on this clip at least, the reporter doesn’t seem that bad. He might be awful elsewhere but he seems to me like a low-level field reporter who was probably just handed a list of questions to ask. He could just be apathetically following the herd here. That’s how a lot of this corporate media Marxist shit gets through actually - nobody in the room is truly gung-ho about it and wouldn’t actually pursue it on their own, but then the one feminist chick in the room brings up the latest corporate media Marxist talking point (i.e., body positivity for sex workers) and everyone else is too scared to say anything in opposition and suddenly some bureaucratic government agency is printing ten million pamphlets to promote “body positivity for sex workers”. But pull aside everyone in the production chain that made those pamphlets possible - the writer, the illustrator, the graphic designer, the printer, the producer - and ask them in secret, “Would you want your daughter to be a sex worker?” and they will all say no. Even the feminist who started the whole thing will only say yes in theory, but won’t really believe it. That will just be her brainwashing stubbornly taking over her common sense.
It’s easy to say that everyone in this production chain was a coward, and they all should have taken a stand and quit their job, but realistically, it doesn’t work that way. The typography guy just sets the text. They hand him some copy and he makes it look good. He works on leading, kerning, serifs, things like that. He takes his own position on body positivity for sex workers out of the equation. And even if he wanted to stand up, how would he do it? Say, “I refuse to set this type!”...? I guess. But the next gig is going to be another stupid PC thing, and the next one. And then there will be some normal gigs. An instruction manual or a cookbook. And eventually he justifies it. “I’m not going to walk out of my job when this same bullshit is everywhere anyway. The nonsense is unavoidable.” And every other person in the chain does the same thing. The printer just says to himself, “I don’t care about the content. That’s my client’s business. I just focus on print quality.” The photographer says, “I just take good pictures.” The guy at Coke in charge of bottling doesn’t care one way or another about white, black, brown, or what the Coca-Cola HR Diversity & Inclusion department is doing. He’s like, “I just make sure the bottles come off the assembly line correctly and in time.”