5 ms·
> Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup. ... complains the former king.
by duncan_bayne 10y ago
> Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup.
... complains the former king.
- M_Grey 10y agoWhen was the last time the NYT was the king of anything? Rush Limbaugh and his type have been dominating for a couple of decades now.
- dexterdog 10y agoDo people still listen to Limbaugh? He's on in the middle of the day in any market I've ever been in so he was never even competing for either of the drive times for me. I moved completely to podcasts a few years ago anyway.
- M_Grey 10y agoHe has about twenty million weekly listeners.
- 65743892 10y agoHe actually has about 13 million weekly listeners. The weekly audience of The New York Times is likely 3-4x larger. Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13911658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13911658.
- jcranmer 10y agoIn the blue collar world, it's not unreasonable that people have the radio on while they work.
- dosgonlogs 10y agoGoogle seems to somehow avoid criticism for doing the same crap other companies do. They have had horrible problems with Sexual Harassment, just as bad and toxic as Uber, but the narrative is not there, just stop and think about that for a second.
- motherx2 10y agoyou're implying the NYT has ever been the king of online media
- duncan_bayne 10y agoOnly unintentionally. I meant that they were king of print, and have been completely usurped by a new mechanism for controlling content consumption by users. I don't buy for a moment that Facebook users are choosing a lot of the content they see.
- drumdance 10y ago> king of print The Wall Street Journal has had a larger national subscription base for years. And of course there were many dominant local city papers in the days before digital. I used to read the Chicago Tribune cover to cover every day. Before that I read the Atlanta Journal.