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“Journalism is one of many fields of public influence—including politics—in which credentials function as de facto permission to speak, rendering those who lack them less likely to be employed and less able to afford to stay in their field. Ability is discounted without credentials, but the ability to purchase credentials rests, more often than not, on family wealth.”

–The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber