https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/
"When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes
hear my name. “Just go independent! Do what Molly White does.” You’ve probably
seen it too: advice to staff writers to “just go independent” like Heather Cox
Richardson, or Casey Newton, or those guys over at
404 Media. “Just do a
Substack! It’s the future of journalism.”
When news broke yesterday that
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos had spiked
the newspaper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, editor-at-large Robert
Kagan resigned. Similar events transpired earlier this week at the
Los Angeles
Times, whose own billionaire owner nixed a Harris endorsement, prompting the
resignation of the editor who drafted it. As staff members at those
publications and elsewhere spoke out about their frustration and fury at the
decisions by those who control their employers’ purse strings, the familiar
refrain began. “Why don’t you just quit too? Just go independent.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
