Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by tomc1985 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:54PM (#18199071)

You mean the institutional infrastructure that allows journalists to do their jobs with some measure of job security and editorial integrity?

(not that there's a whole lot of that left... but its still better than getting news from facebook and youtube vloggers)

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by michaelmrose on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:42AM (#18199722)

The integrity lies in the people and connections between same none of that lies in the building or the dead weight.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by tomc1985 on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:48PM (#18202718)

By that argument you could say that Silicon Valley and its clustering of technology firms are dead weight. All that matters is the people and their connections right?

The journalism that we aspire to today requires a lot of personnel and material resources. Independent vloggers and Facebook/blog randos simply do not have the resources to report like NYT

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by marmaduke on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:40AM (#18200108)

sure but that integrity may become a scarcer commodity as it becomes more difficult to earn a living.

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