Even before the turmoil, Temple hinted that a strategic reconsideration was under way. “It will be more complex than an organization of iconoclasts.” Omidyar sees journalism as “the third phase of his professional life,” bringing together his technology experience and philanthropy, and is prepared to be patient, even if it perplexes outsiders. There is no incongruity between Omidyar’s communitarian ideals and his financing of an insurgency. “It’s not all about civility. It’s about having a healthy and open society.” There’s a tangible insight buried in that amorphous sentiment: Omidyar’s interest in journalism is mechanistic. He wants to aggregate to himself the power to declassify and to bring about the “greater good”.

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