So just take my word for it - that we have amazing, talented young journos coming up in the world who do good, ethical, illuminating work (and please support and subscribe to good, ethical news publishers so they have the money to hire these awesome new journos!).

Unfortunately we can’t publish them in the student publication because they skirt around possibly illegal activities and we don’t have a budget for lawyering up or to protect our sources.

They wrote beautiful stories that reflect the realities of living in Australia today, including a story of supermarket workers who ‘never’ saw anyone stealing 🤘🏽 and an old woman who runs a covert operation to steal lemons from her neighbour’s tree 😂

That would explain a lot...

Then when they hit 40 they either act 15 or 65. This is how it works.

I might be naive but my experience of reddit as a general, mostly passive user, has also been pretty nice. But maybe, to your point about buttressing, it’s because the subreddits I go to are moderated well.

Maybe this is one of the reasons why many good narrative podcasts, with casual presenting style, work so well. It sounds more authentic and honest, and the way I trust a journalist on a good narrative podcast is like the way I trust my friends.