#### Metadata - Author: Alex Perez - URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/journalism-needs-cultural-adjacency > [!note] from Bullhorn This is an essay built around one powerful insight, made more powerful by using Jimmy Breslin as the cover image. Sums it up. He's a millennial from Miami; and damn Breslin was not - but the point is 100% the same. Know your audiences; don't impose upon them. A lesson for advertisers as well. ## Highlights *This sense of adjacency is rare in journalism now. The profession, once semi working-class, is now dominated by people who can afford exorbitantly expensive journalism degrees and have the luxury of taking on unpaid internships in which valuable connections are forged. The absence of journalists from “adjacent” backgrounds is troublesome because it creates blind spots in news coverage and often results in depicting lower classes and people of color as aliens. Of course, to the cultural elites, they often are aliens. So much of the Trump coverage over the last half decade or so, for instance when attempting to explain his appeal to a growing number of Hispanics, takes on the point of view of [elite](https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-lies-and-conspiracy-theories-how-latinos-become-key-target-misinformation-us-election) [mystification](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/latino-voters-are-a-target-for-election-misinformation). They’re constantly mystified, which then forces them to conjure up dubious theories that serve the function of easing their mystification. Working-class Hispanics can’t possibly like the brutish Trump, they think—they must be under the spell of disinformation.* > [!note] from Bullhorn Amen