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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Professional norms came from advertisers. Once journalists started getting paid neutrally (instead of working for political causes), facts and impartiality became an important differentiator. https://www.nber.org/papers/w10791.pdf …
Wow, an actually useful comment. I didn't realize there was an NBER paper about this.
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Here's a link to the other thing I've read some of: https://www.cislm.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Expanding-News-Desert-10_14-Web.pdf …
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And there's another one, somewhere about news reporting, governance, and that it actually, measurably costs municipalities money in the bond market, which is where I've got kernel of idea for change in journalism (at least in us; uk already cleaned out local monopolies ages ago).
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