There's only the briefest mention in the OP of NBC Universal being an investor, but it's worth mentioning than NBCU (a part of Comcast) is one of Snapchat's biggest investors, with a $500M stake: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/03/nbc-invests-500-million-in-sn...
NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
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Re: NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
#22This feels like a natural extension of stories, where previously it was a sequence of short videos shot by your friends, now it's a sequence of slightly longer videos shot by a professional news organization. So in the short term I'm sure it will draw in more eyeballs to watch more ads, but long term it seems like it does nothing to bridge the gap between the traditional "social" functions of Snapchat with the news c…
You make a good point. Low attention spans aren't a millennial thing--it's a human nature thing. Snapchat and facebook may benefit from this phenomenon the most, but HN does too.
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#23Why would we choose to read the sort of fake news that olds deliberately poison their minds with?
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#24they are starting to sound more like a media company than a camera company
Were they ever really a camera company? (Excluding those stupid glasses)
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#25I remember when people on digg would ceaselessly hate on twitter back in 2008, and now here I am on HN in 2017, ceaselessly hating on Snapchat.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
The trick is being able to tell Bozo from Einstein a priori.
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#26>NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast Yet won't turn on their cameras for White House briefings. Why would I care about a coward's product?
I'm not defending the White House's off-camera briefing policy by any means but how would NBC being barred from the briefings completely for breaking the rules help them as a news organization? How does that make them cowardly?
Cowardly, would be the administration forbidding cameras at the briefings.
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/24/wh...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its definitely not for substantial news.
By your definition of substantial. We can try to argue about the definition of "substantial" if you want, but in the end, the fact is that I can find you ten thousand young teens that don't give a fuck about politics and do give many fucks about a Kardashian booty transplant.
I think its pretty clear and universal what "news of substance" means in the context of news journalism. In fact most newspapers have a separate section for entertainment for this reason.
Your comment and diction seem be the very definition of "insubstantial."
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#28>NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast Yet won't turn on their cameras for White House briefings. Why would I care about a coward's product?
I'm not defending the White House's off-camera briefing policy by any means but how would NBC being barred from the briefings completely for breaking the rules help them as a news organization? How does that make them cowardly? Cowardly, would be the administration forbidding cameras at the briefings. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/24/wh...
Nothing is stopping them from turning on their cameras but words.
They fear ramifications yet unknown.
This is cowardice.
Re: NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
#29This feels like a natural extension of stories, where previously it was a sequence of short videos shot by your friends, now it's a sequence of slightly longer videos shot by a professional news organization. So in the short term I'm sure it will draw in more eyeballs to watch more ads, but long term it seems like it does nothing to bridge the gap between the traditional "social" functions of Snapchat with the news c…
You make a good point. Low attention spans aren't a millennial thing--it's a human nature thing. Snapchat and facebook may benefit from this phenomenon the most, but HN does too.
It's not nature, it's in society and it's a bit like a plague numbing it down to real feelings and deeper thoughts.
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#30I remember when people on digg would ceaselessly hate on twitter back in 2008, and now here I am on HN in 2017, ceaselessly hating on Snapchat.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan The trick is being able to tell Bozo from Einstein a priori.
Also maybe no one will laugh but only indicate laughter and be clinically depressed a few years down the line.