> “Malice remains its animating impulse.” > I actually think this is how journalism ought to be. Malice is the intent to do evil, or in a law sense it means to

> “Malice remains its animating impulse.” > I actually think this is how journalism ought to be. Malice is the intent to do evil, or in a law sense it means to have a wrong intention. Why would you think that journalism ought to be like that? > I'm often kind of sad to see how uncritically people, in particular here on HN, eat up these calls for civility, which is simply power trying not to be questioned. The ability to convey malice and incivility is proportional to power. Anyone who can criticize without fear of being silenced has true power, and anyone who is truly powerless will be silenced one way or another. Civility in discourse is one means of allowing the truly powerless to criticize the truly powerful.