Two of my dear friends are journalists who have expressed importance of relationships—burned bridges or establishing selves as untrustworthy/unethical/pandering handicaps ability to get interviews/access “breaking” stories in future. Any thought on logic of doxing SSC? (confused)
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Manufacturing consent.
A staple of the NYT is to employ adversarial journalism techniques against small time players like Scott Alexander, Naomi Wu...
OTOH, never against any institution with a credible shot at biting back/denying access and thus forcing them to do their jobs.
It's really difficult to meaningfully retaliate if an organization as powerful as that writes a hit piece about you, unless you are credibly in the same league.
Journalistic privileges are constantly exploited by big media to push whatever editorial line they are running.
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