The idea that we need a working class media seems appealing until we consider that people don't really want to be working class. They would like to enjoy the privileges enjoyed by someone who, like the author, was able to attend schools like Brown and Columbia before entering a life of authorship and academia. From someone from the actual working class, an article like this is best read as a call to deprofessionalize and defund journalists, all in the name of making them more 'authentic'. I see so much writing like this, including in the field of education, coming from elite universities praising the virtues of the working class written by people in no danger of joining them. Truely authentic working class writing isn't 'authentic', it's aspirational, not celebrating what is, but searching for something better.
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