-Unsupportive of sources who are endangered by giving interviews
-Dishonest and biased
-So politically motivated that they are willing to minimize crucial information and do what they can to discredit pending investigations that could possibly have results contrary to what they want
The New York Times is a corporation. The Boston Globe is a corporation. I have never condemned corporations the way that many journalists who identify as being alternative have; I try to consider what corporations do that are postive or negative as their actions are made known. I quote the mainstream media when there seems to be a reason to do so, and I try not to have that reason be that I want to get someone elected who has done something wrong because I like the person's politics and want to use the story to make my reputation more impressive.
My reputation is the last thing I think about. I spent my first 7 years online writing things that I never thought I'd have to write to anyone, let alone to some of the most respected and powerful people in the world. Not only did I wrote these things, I wrote them all day, every day. They were:
-YOU CAN'T HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN!
-YOU CAN'T SEXUALLY HARASS AND STALK WOMEN!
-YOU CAN'T PROMOTE FEMICIDE!
-YOU CAN'T FILM PEOPLE IN THE BATHROOM!
You know how much all of that yelling did to stop the insane behavior? Nothing. I am used to being despised.
Me Too and the gymnastics scandal did a lot to stop the conglomerate's promotion of the first 3 crimes. It did nothing to stop the last one, because that would have involved admission of wrongdoing by all sorts of people who wanted to jump on the bandwagon of Me Too without taking responsibility for what they had participated in.
At least there is a record, of a decade and counting, of my refusing to participate. I have never, ever said that any of these crimes are anything other than crimes.
I don't need power. I particularly don't need ill-gotten power. As for being influential; it's stressful. I don't like making mistakes, and I'm so mistreated that my temper takes over more often than is conducive toward my being taken seriously. You'd think people whose job it is to protect the public's health and safety would investigate what I have written about voyeurism for years. Unfortunately, they would rather believe that they haven't already allowed it to go on, so they are allowing it to go on.
Maybe, whenever they don't feel like believing something else that I'm saying, or they don't like it, they remind themselves that they don't believe me about the voyeurism.
