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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by Vt71fcAqt7 on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:09PM (#33835252)
I just took a look at the Pulitzer Prize winners for investigative reporting[0] and I havn't heard of any of them from the last ten years. Didn't look any further.

If anything, corporate "news" spam drowns out these deeply researched investigative stories because, as GP said, the market conditions favor drama farming clickbait over an "exposé of highly toxic hazards inside Florida’s only battery recycling plant" which, while clearly important and deeply researched, I have never heard of.

That said, most of these journalists are from "corporate media," so that it "produces nothing of intellectual value" is as you say incorrect.

[0]https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by defective on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:27PM (#33835529)
Whoa, you didn't hear about Roy Moore?
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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by jeffbee on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:32PM (#33835609)
> I havn't heard of any of them from the last ten years. Didn't look any further... I have never heard of

We get it, you are uninformed. It was in major newspapers, was on PBS Frontline, and was adapted for radio, and it won a Pulitzer. You haven't heard of it, that's on you.

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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by Vt71fcAqt7 on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:58PM (#33836000)
Wow. This is kind of hurtful being that I consider myself informed about topics I'm interested in. For example YMTC's 232-layer NAND flash was something I heard about as soon as it broke. I don't have a newspaper subscription so it's hard to keep up with everything being that most news on the internet is the same rehashed for content years on end or meaningless celebrity trivia/drama.
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