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Journalists should be holding governments accountable. Just the way Carreyrou (WSJ) single handedly brought down Theranos, I want journalists to go after govern

Journalists should be holding governments accountable. Just the way Carreyrou (WSJ) single handedly brought down Theranos, I want journalists to go after government corruption and high impact inefficiencies. Notice how NYTimes and the like are not interested in actual journalism of this sorts. Government is a de facto monopoly and we need 10x more eyes on it than anyone else. There needs to be mechanisms for firing bad actors from high up positions. Instead, the focus is always on increasing taxes. As a liberal, I want my taxes to go into exceptional and super high quality services that even the Scandinavians would envy. Otherwise, I will vote for lower taxes and that could mean vote for republicans. Our governments suck so much.

8note 5y ago
The government has become pay to play for journalists. Piss the government off and your not allowed into press briefings anymore. Some dedicated investigative journalism group could do it, but any larger media company cannot. I could see folks on YouTube doing a good job of it?
GDC7 5y ago
You keep dreaming. A journalist is a regular citizen who can write. They are motivated by hatred, that's why Cuomo, Trump and Elizabeth Holmes a juicy targets, but the inefficiency of the beurocracy and the government waste are not something they are interested in. Journalists also throw tantrums when they analyze a high profile person and find nothing on them. Journalists , like cops, judges etc. are not proactive , unlike engineers, their enemy is not a problem, but it's always another person. Their dream is basically them publishing a hit piece which would bring somebody big down, that's how they picture themselves, that's what they visualize when they are asked to define success. From there they try to go backwards trying to see what they have to do to make it happen.

8note 5y ago

The government has become pay to play for journalists. Piss the government off and your not allowed into press briefings anymore. Some dedicated investigative journalism group could do it, but any larger media company cannot. I could see folks on YouTube doing a good job of it?

GDC7 5y ago

You keep dreaming. A journalist is a regular citizen who can write. They are motivated by hatred, that's why Cuomo, Trump and Elizabeth Holmes a juicy targets, but the inefficiency of the beurocracy and the government waste are not something they are interested in. Journalists also throw tantrums when they analyze a high profile person and find nothing on them. Journalists , like cops, judges etc. are not proactive , unlike engineers, their enemy is not a problem, but it's always another person. Their dream is basically them publishing a hit piece which would bring somebody big down, that's how they picture themselves, that's what they visualize when they are asked to define success. From there they try to go backwards trying to see what they have to do to make it happen.