The Aestheticisation of Journalism Is a New Kind of Fascism

Fintan O’Toole

Karl Marx spoke of alienation: how a sort of hyper-capitalism alienates you from the product, the thing that’s created. Today, you no longer know or care about the things you use – the clothes you wear, the food you eat. Where does the product come from? Under what conditions is it produced? What happens to the people who have to make it? You’re alienated from all of that.

One of the things that we’re living with right now – something that is new to the current situation – is a complete alienation of a younger generation from the way in which journalism is produced.

I know this from my own experience of teaching younger people in America.