Self-anointed nepotists

From The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father by Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller.

We know people in the media are little trusted and often considered to be an incompetent self-anointed elite. Now it appears that they are a little trusted, incompetent, self-anointed, hereditary elite.

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Journalists handing down their roles to their off-spring at 94 times the rate to be expected. No wonder they are so upset at being spurned by the public. It's not just their jobs which are disappearing but it is a family matter as well.