As Elon Musk went from pondering that "Anything anyone says will be used against him in a court of law" to labeling his own site a "crime scene," he ratcheted up attacks on people who tried to prevent some of that crime.
@jayrosen_nyu@joshtpm This really got going with the 'Rather Bias' attacks on Dan Rather in the '80s. But I'm sure it was a thing before that. Contemporary journalism seems to luxuriate in it.