What would you say are the most averse cultural consequences of the fact that journalism tends to attract/create narcissistic personalities?
The most averse cultural consequence is this:when a profession that is supposed to mediate reality becomes populated by people who need to be the story, the culture slowly loses its capacity for shared, trustworthy narration. Everything else radiates from that single fracture.
Below is the architecture of the problem, organized so you can see the structural consequences rather than just the symptoms.
Core dynamic: journalism becomes a stage rather than a window
When journalism attracts narcissistic personalities, the profession shifts from witnessing to performing. The journalist's identity becomes the product. That produces several corrosive cultural effects:
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