“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - popularly attributed to Orwell (As you may already kno

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - popularly attributed to Orwell (As you may already know), Swartz was heavily influenced by Chomsky, and Aaron definitely had that pessimistic view of the "news machine." But imo, it seems justified in hindsight considering the backlash that he personally experienced after (arguably, single-handedly) stopping SOPA in it's tracks. His legal persecution was practically guaranteed after that; he was going to be found guilty of something, eventually. Unfortunately, the Secret Service got him by the legal balls for using MIT's facilities to bulk download JSTOR docs.