you call this new journalism. replacing something that has been long dead, lost to accelerationalism. this shakes me to my bones.

in a practical sense, seperated from all (malevolent or otherwise) intention - why did it die in the first place?

what happened to the dicipline of journalism, since adoption of the mainstream, social media age of internet use? it died in a matter of months, as almost everyone (wikileaks exception?) started to compete with porn and noice for attention. lost track of first priority: truth, enlightening the population. became organised, deliberate manipulation, since first priority was no longer truth, but merely attention.

what i had never before considered was the possibility that this was not merely a tragic trick of fate. unforseen effect of market forces shifting. I had never considered that this might have been deliberate. not so much conspiratorial mind control, but just a complete destruction of the dicipline of journalism, by way of making it economically unfeasable. hungry and greedy men rarely keep their morals for long.

if such a thing had not been done, intentionally, would crowdsourcing all of this have been neccesary? would q not have been able to "just" pull a snowden?