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   AnnaAnthro (annaanthro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 22:53:51 JST AnnaAnthro

   White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters by banning access if it continues in its use of Gulf of Mexico | AP News

   https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 22:53:51 JST Rich Felker

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     @AnnaAnthro Can journalists PLEASE STOP seeing "access" as an asset and not a liability??

     "Access" means you are compromised from the start.

     You can (and can only) do actual journalism WITHOUT "access".

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 22:56:33 JST Rich Felker

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     @AnnaAnthro What they SAY is NOT NEWS. It's the reporter acting as a propaganda mouthpiece.

     What they DO is what's news. And that doesn't happen at press conferences. It's uncovered through actual investigative work.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:03:17 JST Rich Felker

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     @AnnaAnthro In this particular case, if "access" depends on having accepted a particularly stupid loyalty-test lie from the regime and published it, not only is "access" worthless, but it's proof to your audience that you're willing to repeat lies for the regime. And thus that you cannot be taken as a reliable source for news.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:20:59 JST Rich Felker

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @AnnaAnthro This might in some vague sense be true, but see https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/113933372871842105

     The *only* thing gamergate actually saw was "women who don't know their proper place". Nothing about the rotten nature of capitalist journalism.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:21:00 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @AnnaAnthro Yep. Turns out the only actual problem with games journalism that "gamergate" pointed to is just a problem with "journalism."

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:40:36 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @AnnaAnthro Ah yes, I forgot the classics. How foolish of me.