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Leaks and whistleblower accounts of stuff with unclear provenance and a cloud of doubt relating to intelligence agencies’ involvement basically means you need law enforcement levels of chain-of-custody norms, and courtroom levels of discovery standards.
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Journalists have been whining for years that investigative journalism is being hollowed out and they have to do clickbait to feed their families etc etc. Yet when even non-bankrupt media orgs have Deep Throat level stories just dropped into their laps they completely muck it up.
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There’s been plenty of time, since Wikileaks and Snowden, to come up with decent standards. It’s not hard. Plenty of other industries and sectors, ranging from law enforcement and spy agencies to corporate legal departments know how to handle sensitive information.
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Basically all the news stories from Snowden onwards have been bungled and turned into pure noise. The media has been entirely captured by its subjects and sources. It is no longer a useful institution. All I now get once sufficient noise accumulates is a heat-light ratio.
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Heat and light, both on a 10pt scale, where heat = useless noise (source irrelevant; left or right media the effect is the same), light = illumination of important matters. Hillary’s emails: 7:0 Trump’s Russia support: 10:2 Trump emoluments clause: 3:8 Hunter Biden crap: 7:2
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