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This may be an unpopular opinion but I feel strongly against titles like this. They could have very well gone with "...Facebook take Instagram Market share" but

This may be an unpopular opinion but I feel strongly against titles like this. They could have very well gone with "...Facebook take Instagram Market share" but they wanted to make it personal and human. I'm disgusted by the choice of words here. One company gained an advantage over there other in a market, big deal! They're competing businesses and eventually one will up the other but there's no point in saying "down to its knees"

adventured 9y ago
You're spot on that it's a bit ridiculous. It's intentional however and it's going to get a lot worse yet. Over the next few years the press will start using increasingly violent-sounding, negative, stark headlines against Facebook. Associated headline words will shift toward aggressive tones. It's a portrait. They do the same thing to most dominant companies once they grow out of the up-and-coming phase. Amazon for example is starting to get deluged by such press coverage; Google has been the subject of it for years; and of course Microsoft went through a solid decade or more of it. Once upon a time, Walmart was portrayed as a cute & fuzzy hayseed retailer just looking to save the good 'ol consumer a buck or two.
- seibelj 9y ago
  It's not surprising that Trump rails against the mainstream media when it's becoming increasingly obvious that the news is written to rile people up and get clicks. The news is like professional wrestling - there are heroes, villains, story arcs, winners, losers, and the more you understand a topic the more you realize the press gets it completely wrong. But maybe it's always been this way, and I wasn't as aware before.
  - pedalpete 9y ago
    Interesting perspective, but I don't think it makes sense to take sides politically in this argument. All media is sadly going this way, the argument could also be made that link bait titles are partly responsible for Trump's popularity. ALL media is sadly going this way. If you think Fox or Drudge or whatever are above these sad tactics, look closer. I'd like to ask the bigger question of, how do we fight/protect agains this?
    - im3w1l 9y ago
      The problem is that journalism is unprofitable. They have to fight dirty just to survive.
      - gaius 9y ago
        This is why I take a nuanced view of so-called Net Neutrality. In such a world, how does anyone monetize? Well we have seen: through sleazy tracking and sly tricks to capture personal data. Personally I liked it the old way: you paid cash money upfront and then you got the product in your hand and the transaction was closed.
        someguydave 9y ago
        Agreed. I would rather have silence than constant trickery and scammy sales everywhere I turn.
      - pedalpete 9y ago
        Not everything is intended to be profitable. That's not to say that journalism can't be profitable, but my take is the current state is giving up on journalism in order to be profitable.
  - cooper12 9y ago
    There's a yuuuge difference between having valid criticism of the news and just dismissing it because it's "fake news". Let's not validate infantile 140-character rantings now.
  - dasil003 9y ago
    It's also ironic considering Trump rode to the presidency on a steady stream of strongly-delivered sweeping factless emotional appeals delivered as barely-coherent narratives.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - lostphilosopher 9y ago
    "Is Everything Wrestling?" > With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed “reality” in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience’s addiction to the melodrama. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wrestling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr...

adventured 9y ago

You're spot on that it's a bit ridiculous. It's intentional however and it's going to get a lot worse yet. Over the next few years the press will start using increasingly violent-sounding, negative, stark headlines against Facebook. Associated headline words will shift toward aggressive tones. It's a portrait. They do the same thing to most dominant companies once they grow out of the up-and-coming phase. Amazon for example is starting to get deluged by such press coverage; Google has been the subject of it for years; and of course Microsoft went through a solid decade or more of it. Once upon a time, Walmart was portrayed as a cute & fuzzy hayseed retailer just looking to save the good 'ol consumer a buck or two.

seibelj 9y ago
It's not surprising that Trump rails against the mainstream media when it's becoming increasingly obvious that the news is written to rile people up and get clicks. The news is like professional wrestling - there are heroes, villains, story arcs, winners, losers, and the more you understand a topic the more you realize the press gets it completely wrong. But maybe it's always been this way, and I wasn't as aware before.
- pedalpete 9y ago
  Interesting perspective, but I don't think it makes sense to take sides politically in this argument. All media is sadly going this way, the argument could also be made that link bait titles are partly responsible for Trump's popularity. ALL media is sadly going this way. If you think Fox or Drudge or whatever are above these sad tactics, look closer. I'd like to ask the bigger question of, how do we fight/protect agains this?
  - im3w1l 9y ago
    The problem is that journalism is unprofitable. They have to fight dirty just to survive.
    - gaius 9y ago
      This is why I take a nuanced view of so-called Net Neutrality. In such a world, how does anyone monetize? Well we have seen: through sleazy tracking and sly tricks to capture personal data. Personally I liked it the old way: you paid cash money upfront and then you got the product in your hand and the transaction was closed.
      - someguydave 9y ago
        Agreed. I would rather have silence than constant trickery and scammy sales everywhere I turn.
    - pedalpete 9y ago
      Not everything is intended to be profitable. That's not to say that journalism can't be profitable, but my take is the current state is giving up on journalism in order to be profitable.
- cooper12 9y ago
  There's a yuuuge difference between having valid criticism of the news and just dismissing it because it's "fake news". Let's not validate infantile 140-character rantings now.
- dasil003 9y ago
  It's also ironic considering Trump rode to the presidency on a steady stream of strongly-delivered sweeping factless emotional appeals delivered as barely-coherent narratives.
- deleted 9y ago
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- lostphilosopher 9y ago
  "Is Everything Wrestling?" > With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed “reality” in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience’s addiction to the melodrama. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wrestling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr...