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> full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook I don't like facebook, but they are not wrong to feel this way because that i
by malandrew 8y ago
> full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook
I don't like facebook, but they are not wrong to feel this way because that is exactly what the media is doing because it is profitable. If it bleeds it leads. The media, like facebook's newsfeed, has the greatest engagement and ad revenue when they are actively selling controversy. Manufacturing or even just exaggerating controversy is at fault here.
There really is no difference between everything shitty about Facebook and the news media these days. They are both afflicted with the same disease.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 8y agoYeah. Except "the media" is reporting actual facts, that not even Facebook is disputing. And you're making some case that would be true no matter what the media focusses on. So: why Facebook, and not Apple? Why Volkswagen, and not Toyota? Why Michael Cohen, and not some other lawyer nobody had ever heard of?
- ngcazz 8y agoSorry, but this is BS. The media have a social duty to report on these goings-on. FB fucked up big time and this should be scrutinized fully. Sure, players might act out of self-interest, but you're just buying into that gross and loutish anti-journalist rhetoric the far-right is pushing.