Many If Not Most Young Reporters Are Anti-Free-Speech. What Will This Mean For Journalism In The Long Run? (Updated)

A core precept of American journalism is being quietly abandoned

(Updated with response from Davey Alba — you’ll see what I mean below.)

Back during the peak of Harper’s Open Letter Discourse, Freddie deBoer made a simple, striking point on his website. His blog posts are set to self-destruct, but the key bits from the post, which used to live here, were memorialized on the site Ordinary Times:

Please, think for a minu…