By characterizing ’s work as “resistance journalism,” expresses what those of us who have suffered sexual assault or abuse have always feared: justice for us is not the main story, it’s niche, it’s extraneous to the main point. We’re genre.
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Ben seems to think he is doing the real work. That good old real objective grey lady journalism, which upholds the same power structures that allowed Weinstein and Lauer et all to prey on people without consequence for so long.
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If telling the truth about what happened to you and that this truth could “ruin a man’s career” is deemed “resistance” isn’t that sort of a signal about the culture in which these stories emerge? That it is set up against accountability for these kinds of violations?
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Yup, yup.
Hard to think of a profession other than journalism (besides politics) where doing your job the way it ought to be done is so heavily penalized.
"Speak truth to power? Why, yes, I always out my sources when the FBI comes knocking."