Comment by Cheer2171
1 year ago
> Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
People who don't agree with what their coworkers are doing and want to be whistleblowers.
Getting those people to reach out to you is a huge part of investigative journalism.
>Getting those people to reach out to you is a huge part of investigative journalism.
Does that still exist? If you do investigative journalism maybe you win the admiration of the public. If you align with the powers that be, no nasty things happen to you and maybe you earn some money.
The world has already learned from doing this mistake. Despotism is bad and listening to the above is how you get there.
Yes, people with a strong sense of morality, interestingly (to the HN crowd), still do exist.
The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it. It's indirectly the main reason why no one trusts journalists in general anymore. Nearly everything is consolidated under the same people and whatever isn't gets smeared and blacklisted.