Collectively, they sure seem to think their publications are gatekeepers. In reality its the various hedge funds and world governments that call their shots.
Any individual journalist should have the right to act as a gatekeeper if they want to, but it gets dangerous when they become part of larger groups that have billions of dollars tied up in politics.
For example, do you think a Washington Post journalist is going to play hardball on an issue like Amazon's monopolistic business practices? Supposedly they have, but if you actually read those articles they spend eight paragraphs blowing Bezos over his business genius for ever one they spend actually talking about antitrust law.
Collectively, they sure seem to think their publications are gatekeepers. In reality its the various hedge funds and world governments that call their shots.
Any individual journalist should have the right to act as a gatekeeper if they want to, but it gets dangerous when they become part of larger groups that have billions of dollars tied up in politics.
For example, do you think a Washington Post journalist is going to play hardball on an issue like Amazon's monopolistic business practices? Supposedly they have, but if you actually read those articles they spend eight paragraphs blowing Bezos over his business genius for ever one they spend actually talking about antitrust law.
Aren't journalists supposed to be the gatekeepers?