The primary cope on which corporate journalists are now relying to demean and minimize Substack is it mostly only has opinion-writers and not those who do "real reporting." No matter how times they repeat it, it won't become true, though may be soothing.
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In all the attempts by corporate journalists to nervously grapple with the success of Substack, the one thing you'll almost never see is any self-critique. The taboo question is why have so many people lost both trust & interest in these big media institutions? Think-piece that.
There's this bizarre paradox that the corporate media employees who love most to decree who does and doesn't do "real reporting" have never themselves broken any big stories, while those they try to malign as mere opinion writers repeatedly have. Such a desperate inversion.
So often, the journalists who wave the "real reporting" flag don't actually value it, let alone do it. Nobody in the west has broken more big stories over the last decade than Julian Assange: not close. Yet they *hate* him & are fine seeing him imprisoned for his real journalism.
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