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If you dig through that list to the articles that are actual journalism (as opposed to explicitly labeled opinion and commentary articles), the last 3 are: - "
by InitialLastName 8y ago
If you dig through that list to the articles that are actual journalism (as opposed to explicitly labeled opinion and commentary articles), the last 3 are:
- "Facebook Used People’s Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show" [0]
- "A Hot Seat for Facebook, an Empty Chair for Zuckerberg and a Vow to Share Secret Files" [1]
- "On Thanksgiving Eve, Facebook Acknowledges Details of Times Investigation" [2]
All three strike me as substantive. Yes, the NYT opinion section is a bit fluffy, and yes, that strikes me as a problem in a world where folks are increasingly unable to distinguish between journalism and editorial, but at the end of the day commentary like that is what the "opinion" label is for.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-documents-uk-parliament.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-docum...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/technology/facebook-british-hearing-mark-zuckerberg-no-show.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/technology/facebook-briti...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/business/on-thanksgiving-eve-facebook-acknowledges-details-of-times-investigation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/business/on-thanksgiving-...
- kodablah 8y agoSure, if you add filters and dig you get substance. The initial contention was about the large amount of substanceless anti-FB content in the media in general, not specific types of content. That you have to dig is the issue, not what you get once you have done so.
- creato 8y agoI think any issue of substance getting media attention will also generate a lot of fluff/opinion commentary on the few articles of substance. I don't think this wave of media attention on Facebook is different.