Changes I didn't think about
Now that I'm not a reporter, I get way, way less of my news directly from primary sources. Because I don't have the time to.
On the other hand, I do still think I have the ability to recognize real journalism, so I'm not talking about the Facebook "news" problem. I just mean it's weird to have a secondary connection — particularly w.r.t. the FOSS world. Of course even that's rather different; I could still dig down into mailing lists and blogs and talk to people if I carved out the time to do it. And, naturally, so could almost anybody else: that's the beauty of working-in-the-open.
On the other hand, I do still think I have the ability to recognize real journalism, so I'm not talking about the Facebook "news" problem. I just mean it's weird to have a secondary connection — particularly w.r.t. the FOSS world. Of course even that's rather different; I could still dig down into mailing lists and blogs and talk to people if I carved out the time to do it. And, naturally, so could almost anybody else: that's the beauty of working-in-the-open.