There’s a story I tell my staff, and younger journalists, sometimes, when trying to encourage them to pick up the phone and interview people. Apparently, it’s shocking. The story is about how, when I began in journalism, there was no Internet. Believe it: we still ran newspapers, we still gathered information.
Yet, when the Internet did arrive in our newsrooms, we lauded it, universally. It was the rise of open information. Few of us foresaw the battle now emerging for our own information, and to control information.
