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# What Now for the Press?
- URL: https://werd.io/what-now-for-the-press/
- Published: 2024-11-07T14:41:29.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-07T14:41:29.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Media, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Dick Tofel](https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-now-for-the-press)\]

Dick Tofel on [where the press should go next](https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-now-for-the-press):

> "We held a free and fair election, and the candidate who hates the press, who makes sport of threatening it physically and with censorship and muzzling, won. The campaign was fought across seven states and he won them all. He got more votes than his opponent."

There's a lot here about how the press could and should respond to the current situation, which I largely agree with. But I *particularly* agree with this analysis:

> "For more than forty years, we have become an ever-more winner-take-all society, one in which the gap between the winners and losers has widened, particularly with respect to income, wealth, education and the advantages that accrue to all three. The Republican Party promoted this; the Democratic Party largely tolerated it. Now tens of millions of those who feel the sting of lower incomes, lesser wealth, inferior education have rebelled.  
>  
> They have, in one of history’s great ironies, put their faith in, and channeled their rage through one of the winners, one who did almost nothing for them the first time he held power, but who gives voice to their grievances, both legitimate and not, and adroitly vilifies those they most resent."

I think there's a lot to this - and I think the Democrats have unfortunately done a poor job of speaking up for working class people who are really struggling. That's not to say that its messages about inclusion are bad - they're very good - but it's not either / or. There needs to be a strong message about how poor people are going to be better-off, that is clear-eyed about rising prices and unemployment for that demographic in particular. *And* we need to make the world better for the systemically oppressed. We are all in this together.

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\[[Link](https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-now-for-the-press)\]