David Brooks

There are so many great journalists that were awe-inspiring.

I was so proud to be associated with them.

But the other two flaws, I think, in the media are,

that are not the flaws of a moment, but are the flaws of decades, is that when I started as a police reporter in Chicago, a lot of the reporters, the older guys I was working under, had never gone to college.

And they were high school, being a reporter was a working class profession.

It was not necessarily a college person's profession.

And now, it's very much a college person's profession.

But even more so, somebody did a study of the editorial staff at The Times, The Post, The Journal, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and 55% of the employees went to the same 32 elite colleges.

That's not only true in the media, that's true in Hollywood, that's true in law, that's true in corporations.

We have become ridiculously unrepresentative sample of the country in all elite professions.

And that's a problem.

And then related to that is we do not have enough Trump supporters on our staffs.

And that's not necessarily because we want to, but it's very hard to find Trump supporters who follow the professional standards we demand.

Because a lot of Trump supporters said, screw you, elite, and not only that, screw you, the whole epistemological theory you walked in on.

I don't play by your rules.

And so we can't have them on because they don't play by the normal rules of honest journalism.

And so it's hard to find Trump supporters who can follow the standards that we insist on.

And I think in those ways, we've become off-kilter and, um, it's, it's ways our, my profession, uh, can reform itself.

What's your media diet?

When you wake up in the morning, what are your go-to sources?