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Why would I care if someone makes money smuggling accurate information through the press? The whole reason we need a press is so accurate information gets smug
by etchalon 4y ago
Why would I care if someone makes money smuggling accurate information through the press?
The whole reason we need a press is so accurate information gets smuggled to us.
- radford-neal 4y agoI agree that we want accurate information about government abuses to be smuggled out. But that has nothing to do with this situation. This situation is about one newspaper getting a commercial advantage from publishing information a few hours earlier than their competitors. It reduces the quality of information the public sees, because many people will read only the report they initially see in the NYT, which includes only the commentary by people they decided to talk to. Whereas if all the papers got the information at the same time, people seeing the initial reports could flip between several sources of commentary, and possibly get a more balanced set of views.
- etchalon 4y agoAs far as I know, there is not a finite allowance of time the public is provided to digest information before forming opinions on it. That one outlet may have a slight time advantage over another is always going to the case (efficiency and process variations). That one outlet may have a slight informational advantage is always going to be the case (better sources, better journalists). You're worried about the wrong thing.