Flutterby™! : counterfactual thinking

Rafe has some musings on how to write about security, but I think there's also a larger message here that needs some spreading about journalism generally. If the New York Times is just blindly repeating sources without applying any critical thinking, and they are, then they're just echoing the already loudest voices.

And we've long established that popularity occurs for reasons of social structure that probably aren't things I want to be supporting.