No the best time was the early Internet days when you had fast access to news and information before people realized that engagement = money and the more pissed off people got the more they would engage.

Also most people generally accepted that facts were you know true, and not just living in their own made up universe.

Oh wow. Had no idea. How long ago was this?

Wait, what incident. I’ve been off reddit for so long now and didn’t pick up bone hurting juice on Lemmy. What did I miss?

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Something would happen, and you’d hear rumors all day at work or school and nothing would be confirmed until the next day’s newspaper came out. It wasn’t great.

The problem is that this has a chilling effect on reporters using anonymous sources for fear being blackballed by the govt.

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