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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 01:20:42 JST Rich Felker

   Thought: Fawning tech "journalists" gladly regurgitating the false narratives industry feeds them, but treating those of us with actual expertise to tell them they're wrong as biased/unreliable..

   ...is exactly the same pattern as journalists treating members or marginalized groups as "biased" and unreliable sources for the issues that affect them, but treating bigots as credible.

   The whole field of journalism is a clowncar.

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     maxine 🇵🇸 (maxine@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 01:36:32 JST maxine 🇵🇸

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     @dalias the verge did something really clever by getting kudos for their jfk/hbo hp piece, and then doubling down on covering every emission from musk and his fellow band of arseholes as sincere. tho in their defence, tech journalism has always just been part of the marketing machine of tech cos

     but then people should have caught on when they put up a paywall but made the comment section free to peruse.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 02:53:46 JST Rich Felker

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     • Epic Null

     @Epic_Null I mean I think there's a parallel with "field of tech" here - even among the people in it who aren't "the business", there's an overwhelming trend of treating oneself as a "temporarily embarrassed [tech/journalism] boss" and align one's behavior with what pleases the capitalists "in charge" of the field.

     Even "independent" journalists tend to be way too credulous of industry claims, too skeptical of real experts who could debunk them.

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     Epic Null (epic_null@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 02:53:47 JST Epic Null

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     @dalias I suspect the problem is not the"field of journalism", but rather the builsness of journalism.

     The reason Substack is successful (forgive me), is because it is giving journalists a path to a different buisness model. Ignoring what we all know is coming, that's... actually quite critical.

     Part of our probme might be that we don't have people who are more ethical doing the dirty work and the propoganda work needed to establish a buisness and a market for a journalism platform.

     We, people who know exactly where this is heading, know that "platforms" are ripe for abuse. Theproblem though, is that the platform users are genuinely benefitting from having the Level Of Service that the platform provides.

     A journalist, when doing the work they actually signed up to do, will be too busy journalisming to be managing mailing lists, serveruptime, payment platforms, etc.

     Seen that way... I think we have a massive social problem that needs some technical support.

     I do not have the social solution.