"What they were saying was we're just about sick to death of the sneering media class trying to make Ukip out to be something completely other than it is.
The country's political and media class – not to mention a panicked judiciary – awaited her words.
If you've listened to any punditry, you may be aware that – in the eyes of the media class, at least – the theme running throughout was one of unity, and surprising levels of optimism.
Just a few weeks before the storm hit, two young Tuscaloosa News staffers — web editor Brian Reynolds and reporter Wayne Grayson — had held a social media training class to encourage their coworkers to use things like Twitter.
"When you take a class, especially a media class, you start to understand what that means, how the First Amendment is behind the scenes".
The media class becomes able to see only one story at a time, and much of the electorate votes along narrowing lines of seeming self-interest, even sending people out to govern who declare that they don't believe in government.
Rather than be labelled sore losers, an entire media class has elected not to mind about the grotesque untruth of Iraqi WMD.
Nearly every school, whether it be elementary, middle, or high school, has media class where students learn to generate video, music, slide shows, etc. — and there's always musical accompaniment.
This semester, he asked the students in his Digital Media in Asia class to document the digital communication landscape of a given country, build a wiki page, and then conduct a one-week public relations campaign to promote it.
Without turning attention to the deep and growing value divides that underpin Farage's revolt, they risk inadvertently strengthening his support among voters who are quickly drawing a line from our media and political class to their unsettling experience of social and economic change.
