Journalists claim intellectual status by modeling letters and philosophy.
Evidence
The traditional and vulgarised type of the intellectual is given by the man of letters, the philosopher, the artist. Therefore journalists, who claim to be men of letters, philosophers, artists, also regard themselves as the “true” intellectuals. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 268
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Directly relevant to Islamophobia field: the journalists/pundits who produce mainstream discourse on Muslims claim the prestige of the traditional intellectual.