Outside The Cocoon Dept.

In re a comment about the new Clooney/Roberts/Foster flickMoney Monster:

Three Sentences About the Cocoon | Mother Jones

Back in the day, plenty of screenwriters and film directors came from working-class backgrounds. Today they all have degrees from the USC film school and live in Silver Lake. They get their news from Variety and the LA Times, not drive-time radio and People. In this cocoon, the working class is something to make money from via transparently condescending TV shows, not real...