Journalists used to have a monopoly on the news. This power bred restraint; whatever their private feelings, they avoided overt personal attacks. Now this power and the consequent restraint are both evaporating. Now they're just Twitter users.
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My guess: their editors believed that the power was a reward for restraint and other forms of quality in writing. They abandoned restraint to hypercompete for clicks, and lost the power that came from respect, while retaining power based on fear.
Or the power and restraint coevolved, because people trusted upstanding journalists more and gave them more stories.
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This is an important point: many journalists don't realize that they compete on trust for sources, not just for clicks.
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