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journalists also like to maintain their status as gatekeepers of information
by blancheneige 8y ago
journalists also like to maintain their status as gatekeepers of information
- infogulch 8y agoI suspect this is the primary reason. This happened before the internet too -- articles never include full references to their public sources -- not because a reader could just switch to reading the source (you couldn't before the internet) but because they want to maintain their power over the reader as their authoritative source of information and make sure they come back. The world is full of people looking for gates they can lock, monopolies they can secure (natural or otherwise), regulations they can capture, and gardens they can build walls around; journalism isn't exempt.