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The whole media ecosystem in the USA is out of whack. The lefties crap on Fox, righties crap on MSDNC, but both could better be thought of as news organs of the

by rdancer 10y ago

The whole media ecosystem in the USA is out of whack. The lefties crap on Fox, righties crap on MSDNC, but both could better be thought of as news organs of the same establishment, with emphasis on opinion shaping, and de-emphasis on truth. Each target a different population segment. Facebook targets yet another segment, and the question is, will it become annexed to the same establishment?

scholia 10y ago
> Facebook targets yet another segment Facebook doesn't target a different population segment or a different political segment of the US, or even the US. It wants everybody to be on Facebook (if they're over the age of 13). That's how it got to $1.65bn users.
- rdancer 10y ago
  As a conduit of political news dissemination, it services a different segment: namely, the segment of people who predominantly get news online.
  - scholia 10y ago
    But that's a self-selecting audience. Facebook users can either look at tending news or ignore it. It's not a political demographic, or if it is, that's incidental.
    - rdancer 10y ago
      It's a segment of the populus who have thus far been uniquely positioned to make up their own mind. That has political implications in a democracy that relies on media to shape the electorate's consensus. As Milo Yiannopoulous recently commented on the 2016 primaries: "If the lying mainstream media ever had the power to shape elections, those days are gone." Will that baton be simply picked up by the new media?
      - scholia 10y ago
        Oh dear. Are you one of Nero's "flying monkeys"? Milo ‘Nero’ Yiannopoulous aka Milo Andreas Wagner but originally Milo Hanrahan is certainly a character: see The Blog That Peter Wrote for some interesting background. However, his record at The Catholic Herald and The Kernel suggests you could probably find better sources on journalism. The Blog That Peter Wrote Wednesday, 16 January 2013 The Art of Self-Loathing http://archive.is/cTgqq http://archive.is/cTgqq Guy Debord's Cat March 24, 2015 Let’s Talk About: Milo Yiannopoulos https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-milo-yiannopoulos/ https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-m... Milo Yiannopoulos and the Kernel https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulous-and-the-kernel/ https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulou... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-payout-order-contributor http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-pay... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
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by rdancer 10y ago

scholia 10y ago

> Facebook targets yet another segment Facebook doesn't target a different population segment or a different political segment of the US, or even the US. It wants everybody to be on Facebook (if they're over the age of 13). That's how it got to $1.65bn users.

rdancer 10y ago
As a conduit of political news dissemination, it services a different segment: namely, the segment of people who predominantly get news online.
- scholia 10y ago
  But that's a self-selecting audience. Facebook users can either look at tending news or ignore it. It's not a political demographic, or if it is, that's incidental.
  - rdancer 10y ago
    It's a segment of the populus who have thus far been uniquely positioned to make up their own mind. That has political implications in a democracy that relies on media to shape the electorate's consensus. As Milo Yiannopoulous recently commented on the 2016 primaries: "If the lying mainstream media ever had the power to shape elections, those days are gone." Will that baton be simply picked up by the new media?
    - scholia 10y ago
      Oh dear. Are you one of Nero's "flying monkeys"? Milo ‘Nero’ Yiannopoulous aka Milo Andreas Wagner but originally Milo Hanrahan is certainly a character: see The Blog That Peter Wrote for some interesting background. However, his record at The Catholic Herald and The Kernel suggests you could probably find better sources on journalism. The Blog That Peter Wrote Wednesday, 16 January 2013 The Art of Self-Loathing http://archive.is/cTgqq http://archive.is/cTgqq Guy Debord's Cat March 24, 2015 Let’s Talk About: Milo Yiannopoulos https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-milo-yiannopoulos/ https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-m... Milo Yiannopoulos and the Kernel https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulous-and-the-kernel/ https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulou... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-payout-order-contributor http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-pay... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
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