That's what journalism was, back when print media had more reliable sources of funding. ClariNet was awesome; it was articles like you describe, delivered over

That's what journalism was, back when print media had more reliable sources of funding. ClariNet was awesome; it was articles like you describe, delivered over a lean protocol (NNTP) designed to do exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClariNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClariNet