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.
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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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I don't think it's a small amount of power at all. It's just a question of who benefits from having it used this way.
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If the press weren't powerful, it would be free.
As is, our societies kill or ostracise journalists who actually do their jobs. Hence we have this complete shitshow of an institution.
The reward for doing relevant journalism is firing, death threats/murder, character assassination in complicit media...
It's no wonder the profession is in such a dismal state.
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