Taylor LorenzI can’t believe Elon Musk banned for tweeting this 😵💫 #twitter #elonmusk #twittermigaration #twitterexodus #tech #technews #journalist
frank_bough@taylorlorenz why are you and other journalists still on Twitter?
Stanley Black-DeckerBecause if they stop courting and playing along with fascism they don't get access to fascists for blockbuster interviews
It's all about the benjamins
Of course, if you read Taylor's twitter post, what's happened here is no amount of compromising with Elon has guaranteed journalist's access with him, and calling him out publicly is a way of reversing the stakes in access journalism
Taylor probably didn't see my post about that (https://urbanists.social/@pleaseclap/109527333874723445) but it's textbook: nice work
@taylorlorenz
Stanley Black-Decker (@[email protected])
Listen okay I do have one last coherent thought before bedtime Access journalism is this situation where the powerful simply revoke access to them when you displease them (this is a class-based social tactic they use in lots of settings, but that's another topic) It does work in reverse: you can exhibit someone shutting down access and avoiding exposure Newsrooms don't do more of that because they live in a world where people who don't like their reporting might kill them