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Legacy media such as NYT and WSJ are refusing to properly cover the real issue of surveillance capitalism duopoly of Google and Facebook. When Candy Crush knows

by mudil 8y ago

Legacy media such as NYT and WSJ are refusing to properly cover the real issue of surveillance capitalism duopoly of Google and Facebook. When Candy Crush knows your hometown and your hobbies, there is no need to serve ads on your local newspaper's website and there is no need for hobby websites, or professional sites, or smart sites for kids. So we have no content creation on internet outside of WSJ, NYT, Youtube, etc. And there are no investments in media. And there is no money in media. In turn we have a static internet and privacy scandals and fake news on a few swampy platforms. It's really bad for democracy and for us. And it's bad for startups.

Analemma_ 8y ago
Half the comments on HN lately are complaining that the NYT covers Facebook too much and that they’re reading it less as a result.
- sametmax 8y ago
  Personnally, I think it's too little too late. They should have told people that 10 years ago, when the IT community started to feel it would go this way, and begun to warn everybody about it. That's what journalist is about. Now, they are just repeating what's in everybody's mind. But society doesn't need parots as journalists. Surprise, we have social medias for that. It needs analysts, reporters, people that help them decrypt the world better. They completly failed at decrypting the IT world for the last 2 decades, and only started writting about things when a lot of people already understood it and paid the price. Basically, they don't do their job, and complain we are not supporting them anymore. Sorry but not sorry.
  - Angostura 8y ago
    > They should have told people that 10 years ago, when the IT community started to feel it would go this way, and begun to warn everybody about it. 10 years ago, you say? https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html https://www.chron.com/sports/longhorns/article/Longhorn-s-expulsion-shows-need-for-caution-on-1774465.php https://www.chron.com/sports/longhorns/article/Longhorn-s-ex... https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/does-google-flu-trends-raises-new-privacy-risks/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/does-google-flu-tr... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.s... https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16ping.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16ping.html https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88748673 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=887486... https://www.cnet.com/news/exclusive-the-next-facebook-privacy-scandal/ https://www.cnet.com/news/exclusive-the-next-facebook-privac... Journalists were writing about privacy concerns in mainstream media quite a lot.
    - sametmax 8y ago
      You are right. I have to think about this more.
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by mudil 8y ago

Analemma_ 8y ago

Half the comments on HN lately are complaining that the NYT covers Facebook too much and that they’re reading it less as a result.

sametmax 8y ago
Personnally, I think it's too little too late. They should have told people that 10 years ago, when the IT community started to feel it would go this way, and begun to warn everybody about it. That's what journalist is about. Now, they are just repeating what's in everybody's mind. But society doesn't need parots as journalists. Surprise, we have social medias for that. It needs analysts, reporters, people that help them decrypt the world better. They completly failed at decrypting the IT world for the last 2 decades, and only started writting about things when a lot of people already understood it and paid the price. Basically, they don't do their job, and complain we are not supporting them anymore. Sorry but not sorry.
- Angostura 8y ago
  > They should have told people that 10 years ago, when the IT community started to feel it would go this way, and begun to warn everybody about it. 10 years ago, you say? https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html https://www.chron.com/sports/longhorns/article/Longhorn-s-expulsion-shows-need-for-caution-on-1774465.php https://www.chron.com/sports/longhorns/article/Longhorn-s-ex... https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/does-google-flu-trends-raises-new-privacy-risks/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/does-google-flu-tr... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.s... https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16ping.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16ping.html https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88748673 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=887486... https://www.cnet.com/news/exclusive-the-next-facebook-privacy-scandal/ https://www.cnet.com/news/exclusive-the-next-facebook-privac... Journalists were writing about privacy concerns in mainstream media quite a lot.
  - sametmax 8y ago
    You are right. I have to think about this more.

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