“oh no my access might go away!” fuck your access, be better reporters and editors - ThreadSky

brianmfloyd.bsky.social • 3 days ago

“oh no my access might go away!” fuck your access, be better reporters and editors

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"My access!" they cry, as Ken Klippenstein continues to report on leaked documents with absolutely no cocktail party access whatsoever.

Just such loser shit.

gwbiscuit.bsky.social•3 days ago

Marisa Kabas keeps breaking stories from her Brooklyn apartment!

daaaavveeee.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean it’s insane they haven’t done the cold and calculated thing and realized what a journalist getting arrested would do for their outlet’s readership. just straight complicity

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•3 days ago

real easy way to make a name for yourself and your outlet right now, and the cost isn’t even that high (yet)

dunrobin.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you can’t make being denied access into the story, then you’re not a journalist.

jordanb239.bsky.social•3 days ago

"the Nazis won't talk to me anymore" think about what are you asking for

badgramar.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nothing has destroyed the credibility, reputation, and actual product of journalists and MSM outlets as much as their addiction to access journalism has. It's a scourge on the profession. That Stelter and others cling to it so dearly clarifies this point.

papabeard.bsky.social•3 days ago

But without someone telling them what to write, they have to do their job

marcmcd.bsky.social•3 days ago

“How will we report the news if they don’t tell us what to report?!”

Honestly, I wonder if cutting off access might actually force them to do investigative journalism again.

trilliemcginest.bsky.social•3 days ago

political reporters are just so much worse at their jobs than any other type of reporter

jeffersonpilot.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you’re worried about arbitrary reprisals, why would you sit on your hands until yours arrives? Makes no sense

hwgt9.bsky.social•3 days ago

getting access is essential to the process of “getting lied to the face and not rebutting”

jeremymx.bsky.social•3 days ago

the outlets breaking the real news these past few weeks are proudly outside the access sphere

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•3 days ago

You can't spell "accesshole" without "asshole"

I think that's how it goes

danweiner.bsky.social•3 days ago

literally every fucking body in Washington wants to talk about industry secrets, white house access is pointless.

brianmfloyd.bsky.social•3 days ago

especially now. throw a stone you’ll find someone who wants to leak to you

alexwarneke.bsky.social•3 days ago

but if they don't have access, how can they do the stenography work they've honed over decades and decades?

scottmellon.bsky.social•3 days ago

But how am I going to find sources if I can’t sit in a big room with all my competition writing down what the dumbest person in the room is saying

uncle6.org•3 days ago

If you need access, you’re not a journalist, you’re a gossip columnist

no1lion99.bsky.social•3 days ago

Being a scribe for the liars isn’t “access” anyway. This isn’t 13 dimensional chess. If they give into him as a group it’s over. Any concession, any agreement.

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