People Seek Transparency
YESTERDAY I published "Just Say the Truth, People Will Come". Social control media is not the future, the media is people who actually break stories, and not those who lie and distort some supposed "news". Last week we wrote a number of articles about the latest (this month's) wave of Microsoft layoffs and, seeing that not a single publisher bothers to investigate this (like actually asking Microsoft; GeekWire is controlled by and funded by Microsoft, so it does not count!), many came to us. We've got 440,000 HTTP/S requests in the first 18 hours of the week/day and it was similar in recent days.
Sometimes one need only report or focus on suppressed topics. The rest will follow. People will come.
People who run away from reality will generally find that eventually - upon sobering up - life gets tougher, not easier. Expectations need to meet reality or be exceeded by it, not the other way around.
Society needs transparency or sunshine, not just "comfortable" (or comforting) headlines. Reality ain't pretty; people are hungry for it regardless.
A lot of investigative journalism has died. The Assange verdict won't help is recovery. █