This right here is theeeee thing preventing me and so many others from reporting out … oh, at least a dozen stories that I can think of offhand. Even folks who have managed to make a good living as solo outfits can’t afford to get lawyered at scale
individual newsletters also don’t have the infrastructure for the more investigative journalism that risks lawsuits so we lose that when we tell people essentially to start a blog instead of having a robust newsroom with resources!!!
^^ These kinds of thoughts invariably draw two kinds of replies that aren’t outright hostile:
1) “have you thought of [incredibly obvious solution]?”
and
2) “have you thought of [solution that is so plainly unworkable that offering it up in the first place is almost, in itself, an insult]?”
