Our media moment might be defined by a certain paradox: Society has become increasingly fractured, such that people get their news and entertainment from a wider array of sources, each of them appealing to a community or niche. At the same time, much of that media—particularly when it concerns news—rises or falls on the level of access to influential figures. Members of the traditional press increasingly find themselves locked out of the Pentagon, the White House press pool, statehouses, and Hollywood junkets, displaced by influencers deemed to be friendly to the cause at hand. Our old framework for “insiders” and “outsiders” no longer applies, and trust in journalism is plummeting. Access suggests exclusivity, but it seems like everyone has the president’s cell number. Trade-offs may be made to secure an in, trust needs to be earned, the best reporting often comes from the outside, some things never change. What’s really new, maybe, is who has access to us—what material is platformed, and amplified, as never before.