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Exactly. What do we want? Tips on stories inside banks from the likes of journo Chris Giles at the FT who is utterly wedded to the status quo, along with tens o
by branchless 10y ago
Exactly. What do we want? Tips on stories inside banks from the likes of journo Chris Giles at the FT who is utterly wedded to the status quo, along with tens of other "journalists"?
Our media is like a sieve, only instead of finding the unusual and challenging thinkers it weeds them out and retains the unthinking dross whose only ambition is to join the establishment and kick back.
- resfirestar 10y agoJust because you can think of one journalist you wouldn't want handling financial leaks doesn't mean they're all rotten. Were the Panama Papers (ICIJ) not well handled? Even the Los Angeles Times apparently had the guts to publish a story that took the side of low level bank employees, eventually bringing down the chairman of Wells Fargo. And what's the implied better alternative, anyway? When Wikileaks does a data dump, most people aren't poring over it all night, it's usually people in the same media you decry who bring important revelations to mass attention. Giving them a head start to potentially write a great story doesn't seem like something that should be wildly controversial.
- branchless 10y agoAs the parent post suggested I don't want wikileaks merging/'empowered' with our largely supine press.