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the social media true crime genre in its frenzy to unmask the leaker of the cctv footage in the idaho (or idaho4) case, is emulating the absolute worst of mainstream media, 'journalists' who may not even be journalists so much as domestic spies.

for context, see this previous entry.

this is glenn greenwald's system update show from 13th april 2023, discussing mainstream media's inappropriate zeal to unmask the leaker of the ukraine files, jack teixeira. they succeeding in finding and outing him, and in doing law enforcement's and the intelligence agencies' job instead of their own. journalism is an adversarial sort of job. not everyone is cut out for it. which brings me back to the points i was making and the questions i was asking in this entry.