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by pyre 6106 days ago
> If you can trust people for anything, it's in finding a way to profit. And I fully trust my generation of journalists and editors to find a way. As ideological as it makes me sound, Capitalism really did get that bit right.

It's important to note that this doesn't exclude the possibility that they all become corporate shills for one company or another. Not that I believe such a thing will happen, 'they will find a way to profit' doesn't always connect up with the more romanticized David-vs-Goliath imagery of 'hacker/journalist' rebelling against the mainstream media establishment.