kMO Bourdieu

One of the most important ideas I found in Bourdieu's On Television was his theory that the entire field of journalism owes their importance in society to their de facto monopoly on the large-scale informational instruments of productions and diffusion of information. Through other theorists we have discussed this semester, we have learned that vertical integration allows media to have almost complete control over the public but what we haven't discussed is the impact media has on cultural producers...

Bourdieu believes that having the power to control a person's public existence (ones ability to be seen as a "public figure") is the key to success. This type of responsibility is very important and comes with a high level of respect. My question now becomes why are journalists regarded as structurally inferior in today's society. Bourdieu suggests the idea that journalists want nothing less than to be part of the intellectual crowd - which is potentially why many tend to lean toward anti-intellectualism may be part of it... But how can one hold the power to decide WHO we listen to yet still be considered socially inferior?