Re:Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything
by Tycho on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:28PM
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In the digital age, much of “journalism” is just an unnecessary obfuscation layer easily abused by powerful actors. Dumping the source documents provided by whistleblowers is preferable to withholding them from public gaze and printing a story.
Re:Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything
by spiderfarmer on Saturday August 18, 2018 @01:24AM
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Source documents can just as easily be abused.
I think WL at some point was "the most powerful force bringing to light information the public should know" but it's no longer the case. They just dump data into the internet with no sense of moderation or actual journalism.
Dumping a lot of data isn't journalism. Everyone can do that. Journalism is processing and summarizing the data, pointing out the parts that are troubling.