This is a thoughtful analysis/confession by @BuzzFeedBen. I worried back when Politico and its cohort were ascending that obsessive, junky coverage wasn't good for politics or for journalism. I'm a little surprised it took others so long to see that. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/i-helped-create-insider-political-journalism-now-its-time …
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Ben has also caused me to pause and think about what national security reporters like me may have missed. Where are our blind spots? What are we doing wrong? What can we do better?
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Replying to @shaneharris
Good pieces explaining the national security architecture of the US. In the mainstream press. Unless you're an uber-nerd (say read lawfare et al), there were few ways to understand what FISA, 702 etc is before recent turmoil.
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Replying to @AndresFreundPol
Excellent point. There was a more of this coverage back in 2005-06, and then again following the Snowden revelations, but we haven't kept up with it for our readers.
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Yea. I think it's a bit "unfair" that news orgs have to explain the larger architecture, but given the pace of development school time education wouldn't help much even if it were good. (And I personally might just not have been appreciative of the balances of issues at ~14)
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