That is an important distinction but it doesn't map neatly onto the twitter problem Josh describes because:
1. Many reporters like the ones you describe in your third paragraph eventually want to do the jobs you describe in your second paragraph (Ben Smith, John Heilemann, Kara Swisher--the list is endless--all were category A before the…
That is an important distinction but it doesn't map neatly onto the twitter problem Josh describes because:
1. Many reporters like the ones you describe in your third paragraph eventually want to do the jobs you describe in your second paragraph (Ben Smith, John Heilemann, Kara Swisher--the list is endless--all were category A before they were category B) and see twitter as a platform to establish a voice and an audience. Or maybe they want to write a book or become a screenwriter or start a podcast and see twitter as a way to help pitch/sell that endeavor. And:
2. Good luck setting different rules for different types of employees--that would be even more managerially difficult and likely to become a complete mess.
While you're right that an individual reporter may not have much bargaining power, making many of your reporters want leave at once might be too costly for an individual decision maker to decide to take the leap. All I am suggesting is that this problem continues even though the solution is obvious for understandable reasons, and it's not clear to me that Elon being a dick to journalists right now changes that calculus all that much.
That is an important distinction but it doesn't map neatly onto the twitter problem Josh describes because:
1. Many reporters like the ones you describe in your third paragraph eventually want to do the jobs you describe in your second paragraph (Ben Smith, John Heilemann, Kara Swisher--the list is endless--all were category A before they were category B) and see twitter as a platform to establish a voice and an audience. Or maybe they want to write a book or become a screenwriter or start a podcast and see twitter as a way to help pitch/sell that endeavor. And:
2. Good luck setting different rules for different types of employees--that would be even more managerially difficult and likely to become a complete mess.
While you're right that an individual reporter may not have much bargaining power, making many of your reporters want leave at once might be too costly for an individual decision maker to decide to take the leap. All I am suggesting is that this problem continues even though the solution is obvious for understandable reasons, and it's not clear to me that Elon being a dick to journalists right now changes that calculus all that much.