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White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters by banning access if it continues in its use of Gulf of Mexico | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7
@AnnaAnthro Can journalists PLEASE STOP seeing "access" as an asset and not a liability??
"Access" means you are compromised from the start.
You can (and can only) do actual journalism WITHOUT "access".
@AnnaAnthro What they SAY is NOT NEWS. It's the reporter acting as a propaganda mouthpiece.
What they DO is what's news. And that doesn't happen at press conferences. It's uncovered through actual investigative work.
@AnnaAnthro In this particular case, if "access" depends on having accepted a particularly stupid loyalty-test lie from the regime and published it, not only is "access" worthless, but it's proof to your audience that you're willing to repeat lies for the regime. And thus that you cannot be taken as a reliable source for news.
@dalias @AnnaAnthro Yep. Turns out the only actual problem with games journalism that "gamergate" pointed to is just a problem with "journalism."
@mark @AnnaAnthro This might in some vague sense be true, but see https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/113933372871842105
The *only* thing gamergate actually saw was "women who don't know their proper place". Nothing about the rotten nature of capitalist journalism.
@dalias @AnnaAnthro Ah yes, I forgot the classics. How foolish of me.
