Newsweek and ‘trust us’ journalism

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Newsweek and ‘trust us’ journalism:

Leah McGrath Goodman tells Felix Salmon this about her controversial Newsweek piece on the founder of Bitcoin: “If I read my own story, it would not convince me,” she says. “I would have a lot of questions.” And that sums up the problem with Newsweek’s piece claiming to out Satoshi Nakamoto: Newsweek, by its own admission, didn’t prove its assertion…

The days of “trust us” journalism, for better or for worse (but mostly for better), are long gone.