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Not sure I agree, it's the job of the 4th estate to speak truth to power, that is why it is afforded special privileges and protections. If you predicate your
by icu 8y ago
Not sure I agree, it's the job of the 4th estate to speak truth to power, that is why it is afforded special privileges and protections.
If you predicate your ability to speak truth to power on a business model that relies on the power structure you are criticizing you undermine your raison d'être.
- eropple 8y agoCool. So what's your solution when private businesses are busily making sure that those "special privileges and protections" don't mean anything to the people who have to hear you speaking truth to power?
- icu 8y agoI hear your criticism... I personally don't have a solution as news media isn't my area of domain. However, there must be a technical solution to the problem. I've seen one or two HN threads discussing a decentralised web. Perhaps that's indeed the solution?