Can we take a metascience / meta-scicomms perspective? Quanta magazine, like all scicomm journos, relies on the receptive access to researchers for source cont

Can we take a metascience / meta-scicomms perspective? Quanta magazine, like all scicomm journos, relies on the receptive access to researchers for source content, especially exclusive results. So scicomms is essentially the same kind of access-journalism evryone comolains about in DC beltway rwporting, but amplified & couched in the 'but science" brand. In Quanta's case, its sources are quantum physicists / particle physicists. So couching everything in terms of quantized particles (bonus points if somehow 'spooky') avails of the continued access. Articles from the likes of Quanta get cited in particle physicists' onward grant proposals. Pwrticle physicists get grant, get results which get reported just so, and the scicomm journo gets invited to show up once again to scribe away. The circle repeats, meanwhile everyone just hopes it's a virtuous one.