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Besides all the obvious replies about how silly that argument is, most journalists are pretty removed from the business/financial side of their organization. A
by vineyardmike 6y ago
Besides all the obvious replies about how silly that argument is, most journalists are pretty removed from the business/financial side of their organization.
Aside:
> I know people who do and taking this perspective seriously
No. It is not a serious argument. Take people seriously, belittle bad arguments in respectful ways to the individual.
- tjs8rj 6y agoSure, and so are developers, but surely the business side gets passed down and percolates through management. Not to mention I made no assumptions about HOW the business side percolates, but noted that there is observational evidence of journalists acting in ways one could interpret as fomenting. Stuff like: running headlines about a shooters race then being wrong later, running stories from an “anonymous source” with devastating consequences or getting the info seriously wrong like the Steele Dossier, the Covington kids, the George-Trump “find the votes” call. And so on. I don’t purport to know why or how the financial interest and the observed actions are physically connected, just that they almost look like a motive and a lack of alibi