the reporter is rapidly becoming the story
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@NRO has a piece out, specifically a NYT hit, has some good context around anonymity policy and its history at NYT nothing new to SSC that I know of, but it names names like@CadeMetz,@puiwingtam,@CorbettNYThttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/what-a-nyt-reporters-doxxing-threat-says-about-the-papers-standards/ …2 replies 13 retweets 99 likesShow this thread -
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@RT_com from earlier much lower quality welphttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1275495528906678272?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
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@CharlesFLehman at@FreeBeacon very good coverage and context, commentary from SSC and Scott Aaronson@nytimes SCOOPED and boy crazy how easy it was to just use a pseudonymhttps://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-site-for-fear-of-nyt-doxxing/ …6 replies 19 retweets 131 likesShow this thread -
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@CharlesFLehman is willing to take commentary from informed people, and I'll suspend "Don't Talk To Reporters" this once (but please be careful even so) Charles, I trust you will advise anyone who reaches out on downside risks.
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interesting note these are /alumni/ tho imagine things look different inside https://twitter.com/CharlesFLehman/status/1275529044017197061?s=19 …
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hmmmm this has been in the works for a while (I think? No idea how long it takes to write a story) curious anglehttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1275543764614987778?s=19 …
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Paul GrahamVerified account @paulgThe "Y Combinator crowd?" What does he even mean? The partners? The alumni? Hacker News users? Though in all 3 cases I'd guess this mysterious "overlap" is the same: We've read some of Scott's essays and thought they were well-written. Boy is this going to be a boring article. pic.twitter.com/XexQVtnmLlShow this thread3 replies 0 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
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@MarcHochstein and@CoinDesk come out swinging, using as a case study and discussing their own policies seems like this is congealing into a story about newspapers and pseudonymityhttps://www.coindesk.com/why-coindesk-respects-pseudonymity-a-stand-against-doxxing …3 replies 9 retweets 60 likesShow this thread -
You could say that
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What do you make of it? My sense of the internal social/industrial mechanisms of journalism is massively underdeveloped, happy for any perspective
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Marc said pretty much all of it in the piece; I have little to add other than the digital world — with its instantaneous access, infinite scale, and quickening evolution — often means rethinking practices from the analog era. The values stay the same, but the methods may change
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appreciate it.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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