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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by matt4077 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:21PM (#21330184)
The reasoning for eliminating the public editor was that today, social media does a far better job at it than anyone in-house ever could, especially considering the widespread view that it's impossible to independently criticise one's own organisation.
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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by will4274 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:28AM (#21331371)
Which is, of course, ridiculous. The public editor (or ombudsman at WaPo) served a crucial role in giving official "news" status and internal information about drawbacks in their own reporting - neither function which can be filled by randoms on social media.
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