The tentative merger between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Estate takes another step as the rules change in the business of unearthing secrets.

This New York Times article about the Panama Papers is a bit too much US journalists patting themselves on the backs when the leaks don’t seem to include any American names. 99% of the names were left out to protect “private” individuals. How convenient.

As Wikileaks states:

“If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged in 1% journalism.”

Source: Panama Papers Leak Signals a Shift in Mainstream Journalism – NYTimes.com