Interview With Owen Jones

“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.”

The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno amongst the British journalist milieu. Aaron Bastani spoke to him about the media, privilege and what ‘groupthink’ really is.

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