Cases abound of how the “Covid-19 excuse” has led to the inability of journalists to do their job of reporting medically endorsed effective public health measures, or to challenge lethal disinformation.
“Because journalism is not The New York Times, or BuzzFeed, or the Miami Herald. When you strip everything down to its essential function, journalism is a system for collecting, synthesizing, verifying and distributing news. Everything else is just form.”
“If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine — but as a subtler system of separations and dependencies that make publics, then we might see each era’s types of press freedom as bellwethers for particular visions of the public.”
Bilton, Ricardo. "With its denial-of-service guide, the EFF wants to help small news organizations keep their sites online." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Oct. 2017. Web. 11 Mar. 2025.
APA
Bilton, R. (2017, Oct. 2). With its denial-of-service guide, the EFF wants to help small news organizations keep their sites online. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 11, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/with-its-denial-of-service-guide-the-eff-wants-to-help-small-news-organizations-keep-their-sites-online/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "With its denial-of-service guide, the EFF wants to help small news organizations keep their sites online." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 2, 2017. Accessed March 11, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/with-its-denial-of-service-guide-the-eff-wants-to-help-small-news-organizations-keep-their-sites-online/.
Wikipedia
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