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> I don't think many people use facebook to get their news and nowhere else. And yet enough people do that it's a real and recognized problem to the point that
by Swizec 10y ago
> I don't think many people use facebook to get their news and nowhere else.
And yet enough people do that it's a real and recognized problem to the point that HN discusses it every couple of weeks. HN in itself being a similar echo chamber.
People get news from what they look at. There's no such thing as "news". It's all eyeball based. The source with the most eyeballs is considered The News.
- maxlybbert 10y agoThat reminds me of John Stewart telling people not to consider the "Daily Show" a real news show.
- Retra 10y agoThat is what you say when you're making a distinction between "editorial" content and "news." Jon Stewart was saying "My show is obviously editorial content, not fact-reporting objective journalism." As a way of objecting to other sources who claimed to be providing fact-reporting objective journalism when they were actually providing editorial content. AKA "Fox News" vs "Comedy Central."
- maxlybbert 10y agoThat is true. But Stewart also said "The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls."