Stop using ‘Brooklyn’ to mean hipster neighborhoods
Elite-oriented outlets typically only cover the borough’s most affluent, Manhattan-adjacent neighborhoods
Last week the Daily Beast trolled the entire internet with an
article claiming,
absurdly, that “the Upper East Side is now cooler than Brooklyn.” In so doing, it epitomized one of the media’s worst habits: treating the entirety of Brooklyn as if it were only a few of its neighborhoods, and all of its wildly diverse 2.5 million residents as if they all belonged to one particular, affluent band of newcomers to the borough.
http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/brooklyn_reporting_elitism_hipster.php?page=all
