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Ah. The journalists and reporters. Of course. Much concern. Never a mention of the owners, publishers, editors, boards, and personages of influence. Never a m
by specialist 6y ago
Ah. The journalists and reporters. Of course. Much concern.
Never a mention of the owners, publishers, editors, boards, and personages of influence.
Never a mention of the quid pro quo of coverage for access.
We should focus all our concern on the journalists. Those dastardly story tellers using their immense power to boss around the mail clerks.
- Luechkt 6y agoFormer journalist here. Spot. On.
- specialist 6y agoCan you recommend primers, explainers, autobiographies, collection of war stories? Something accessible to laypersons like me? After my own unsuccessful efforts, I started collecting books and articles about lawmaking (legislation). It'd be really great to have similar resources for investigative journalism.
- MacsHeadroom 6y agoManufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky Various works by many of these individuals: https://freedom.press/about/board/ https://freedom.press/about/board/
- specialist 6y agoHmmm. I guess what I'm hoping to find is a playbook for how to get stories published. Proven effective methods. I accept everything I've read from Chomsky and others. But I am still no smarter on what to do about it. For an analogy, Camp Wellstone teaches how to strategize policy work using tools like Power Maps.
- amadeuspagel 6y agoTrump mentions Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, all the time. But of course journalists themselves also have power. The power to decide what information reaches their readers, how it is presented - that is power. Not bossing around mail clerks.
- specialist 6y agoName one investigative report that was published against the wishes of the hierarchy. Whereas stories like this are innumerable: Whistleblowers punished for attempting to report unlawful rBGH in milk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre#Whistleblower_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre#Whistleblower_lawsui...
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- rflrob 6y agoRonan Farrow’s investigation of Harvey Weinstein was nearly squashed by NBC, where he worked at the time. He had to take it to The New Yorker.
- specialist 6y agoFarrow is a terrific example. He's like the next Seymour Hersh. Edit: The New Yorker was Hersh's home too. Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh
- cdirkx 6y agoBut journalists do not typically have that power. What stories reach readers and how it is presented is power of the editors and board, like the parent pointed out. If your bosses don't want a story covered (in a specific way), it's not going in the newspaper.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThe workers are always the easy targets. The software engineers, the police, the journalists etc. Meanwhile the puppeteers sit behind the curtains pulling the strings creating the system for everyone to be at each other's throats and no one even questions them.
- andi999 6y agoManufactured consent, anybody...?