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Geeze. Click the damn "web" button. There's so little quality news information left on the web the least you can do is spend five seconds to hack around the ple

• bpchaps 10y ago
  I have experience with private investigative journalism and can personally speak on how bad it is. This is awful obfuscation of news. There's little quality news because it's about what's interesting and what will make the most money. This is not what news is supposed to be about. Example - after the Tribune posted an article about a lawsuit they filed for getting the Chicago mayor's email records, I called the reporter who wrote it about with my own research for the mayor's phone records. Wanted to see if he was interested in writing about my work. He said, with the most apathetic voice, that he didn't do any of the research and was "just doing a job". He forwarded me to the reporter who did the research, but he never called me back. Later, called DNAInfo who eats this sort of thing up. They didn't want to touch it because my reasoning for requesting the records wasn't interesting enough. It's frustrating, and it's even more frustrating seeing WSJ pull this shit without anybody speaking out.. Top-down reporting is bullshit.
• manigandham 10y ago
  > There's so little quality news information left on the web And these hacks are a reason why...