Actual outcome is going to be more whistleblowers, competitors to Wikileaks, and mob justice together putting most big, secretive institutions requiring expensive journalism out of business. Can’t analyze change in reoporting without analyzing change in things-worth-reporting.https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/989609519465553920 …
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The other big downside is that such individuals typically lack the legal cover needed to fight back if targets attempt to retaliate with lawsuits. The solution to this is probably some sort of crowdfunded legal defense insurance via things like Patreon
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Basically, journalism is being unbundled at roughly the same rate as things worth reporting on with the journalism model are being unbundled. It’s a basic complexity-impedance-matching trajectory. Ashly’s law of requisite variety applies.
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I keep going back to basics: “journalism is printing what somebody doesn’t want printed. Everything else is public relations.” It is reasonable to expect the “shape” of journalism to mirror the “shape” of the power of the somebodies, modulo whistleblower/hacktivist subsidy
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