I suspect there was a time when journalism had the loose-knit co-opetition feel blogging still does. When it wasn’t a sort of tight, doctrinaire, inquisitorial cult built around an editorial party line and top-down reporting conventions, and micromanaged vocabulary and style. 🤔
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Individuals mostly pursuing what was interesting to them using some shared distribution infrastructure (printing press = Wordpress) and a bit of healthy competition for inches, front page access (front page = aggregator front page) etc. I suspect such looseness is essential.
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Reading old reporting and even opinion pieces, you get a sense of individual voices coming through. An impression of newsrooms behind the scenes as idea markets (like Twitter) and charismatic editors as tastemakers and prioritizers rather than Chief Politican Officers.
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Old media writing has the feel of coming from a besieged place these days. Which I suppose it is. It’s where the joy of writing seems to go to commit suicide now.
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