Monday 28 April 2008
In the British media, you still see elite used predominantly to refer to economic and business leaders, whether you look at the left-wing Guardian or Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London. But on Murdoch’s Fox News, references to the media elite outnumber references to the business and corporate elite by 40 to 1, and the disproportion is only slightly less dramatic on CNN. When Americans hear elite these days, they’re less likely to think of the managers and politicians who inahabit the corridors of power than of the celebrities, academics, and journalists who lodge in its outer boroughs. Geoffrey Nunberg ☀
