> usually is sincerely trying to get at the truth Good intentions are neither good outcomes nor good conduct. Incentives seem to trump intentions, and seem po

> usually is sincerely trying to get at the truth Good intentions are neither good outcomes nor good conduct. Incentives seem to trump intentions, and seem poorly aligned with the public interest. Is this WP version[1] less bad than the LA Times version[2]? Yes. And it's in the entertainment, not the business section. But they still published it. And to be fair to the author, "Hollywood" is good at this game, and regularly suckers some journalist, sometimes quite senior ones, into doing one of these. But they still published it. And to be fair to Hollywood, a former Obama White House official described them as "extremists are people who talk only among themselves". But they still published it. "Pravda on the Potomac" and "it usually is sincerely trying to get at the truth", do not seem necessarily inconsistent observations. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/with-change-at-the-top-of-copyright-office-a-battle-brews-over-free-content/2016/11/07/a8c0b140-a4ea-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/with-chan... [2] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20161109-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20161...