If media outlets were reporting on Zuck's love life or just rehashing known stories with inflammatory headlines you'd have a point. But even the stories on FB's

If media outlets were reporting on Zuck's love life or just rehashing known stories with inflammatory headlines you'd have a point. But even the stories on FB's interpersonal drama has been of significance. Take for instance the stories on the departures of the heads of What's App . That easily could have been played for cheap entertainment value but instead serious journalism was done to show the public that these people who agreed to billion dollar exits selling to Facebook left money on the table because the company was no longer an organization they wanted to be apart of. I don't disagree with you that the drama at FB plays, but that doesn't make it any less valid journalism. There is more media today than there has ever been. It's not all up to the same standard. But the reason FB can't manage to get out of the spotlight is their own fault. Maybe they close ranks and right the ship eventually but there is something going on at the highest levels of that company that is off and the media is going to keep investigating until they get to the bottom of it because that's the whole point of the profession. Yes it absolutely plays, but there is also a whole lot of substance to it.