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Well the difference is that Facebook is an aggregator and doesn't actually publish or write any of their own content. They're a media company, sure, but they're
by freehunter 9y ago
Well the difference is that Facebook is an aggregator and doesn't actually publish or write any of their own content. They're a media company, sure, but they're not directly comparable to newspapers or cable news outlets.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoGoogle doesn't make the ads either, they just publish them on their platform
- rootlocus 9y agoFrom a consumer point of view, Facebook is pretty much a news source. For some even the only news source.
- lugg 9y agoExactly what do newspapers and cable news have in common with each other that Facebook doesn't?
- shkkmo 9y agoThey pay reporters.
- vuln 9y agoFacebook employs moderators.
- coloredtopbar 9y agoIn other words: Facebook doesn't employ journalists, certainly not to do journalism.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoYou don't see a difference between a moderator and a reporter in terms of content creation?
- PeterisP 9y agoQuite many of them don't, many (most?) not-top newspapers re-publish news gathered by others; many (most?) cable companies don't produce any news content themselves but just provide access to a bunch of news channels. Those still are media companies.
- reaperducer 9y ago> many (most?) not-top newspapers re-publish news gathered by others If you're referring to AP and other news services, they pay quite a lot for that, so the reporters are paid. Also, they contribute their own stories from their paid reporters to the service for other members to share.
- debt 9y agoFacebook is an editor(like at a newspaper), except in this case editorial control is determine by billions of users and a completely opaque "News Feed" algorithm. Remember, people don't just share articles, they share articles with their commentary.
- dredmorbius 9y agoChannel matters FAR more than content. ("Content is king" was always a distraction. And that came from Sumner Redstone (Viacom), not Bill Gates, who only quoted it.)
- bzbarsky 9y agoIn a world in which any piece of content you want to exist does exist because someone is written it (and we're a lot closer to that world now than in Hearst's day), power lies not in production of content but in control over which content actually gets seen.
- dbbk 9y agoThey do though, Facebook Watch is them funding original content.