I don't get the first screenshot, is Fong suggesting there be moles inside companies that leak internal company news and reports to the public? Fong doesn't seem to realize that a city is a public entity, and part of the government, which is beholden to constitutional things, while a company isn't and therefore can have privacy.
Nah, its more like how the Universities, high schools and such have their own internal publications.
Even the US Navy has its own "journalists":
https://www.thebalance.com/journalist-navy-enlisted-rating-description-3345829
I can't remember exactly, but I did meet an enlisted "journalist" and they'd do things like publish internal newspapers/media for enlisted soldiers, I'm not sure how much free roam they'd have with being critical (feel free to correct me on that, again its been ages since I spoke to that person, but the existence of "journalists" in the army was interesting)
I'm not actually the biggest hater on Liz besides her attempts to try and bully VPS providers. However much people might disagree with their statements, from what I've seen Liz seems to at least be able to handle herself a bit better and is also "authorized" to speak publicly as a Google employee. Whereas Tim was not, which is also alluded to when one of his managers specifically told him that the right to speak about politics had to be "earned".
She also posted this article once which was quite interesting reading:
https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/
(the article basically dispells a lot of the claims that people using their "real names" online would somehow cut down on shitposting as well as a number of other things)
FB & Google are large enough to have their own police officers, so I don't actually think its that far out to have independent journalists within their ranks. It's surely a lot smarter for a qualified journalist to approach a lot of the problems being discussed than the people who currently are.
So don't get me wrong, Liz might wear a dog collar to work, Liz is also arguably an idiot for having cyberbullied a VPS provider using her company email address, but she does have some valid points and observations here and there (and no, I don't really read into stuff about employer discrimination etc because I don't find it interesting, I'm talking about other stuff).
