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Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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No surprise here. Two peas in a pod. The assault on independant journalists (e.g Substack), independant voices (e.g. Clubhouse) and others continues unabated by the likes of NY Times elitists like Taylor Lorenz. Corporate media like NY Times even covered the original 2004 Harvey Weinstein expose and regularly lies on so many internatonal issues as well. https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-bill...…

Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #5

I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes. Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one. If I went to a paper's website i…

Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers?

If you don’t want the social aspect of news, you can get the AP stories through the AP News app or subscribe to rss feeds to major papers. The AP keeps papers from covering the same story from their own angle, you’ll usually see the same AP stories printed in papers across the country.

I agree it’s hard to filter the news on your own and quality journalism does seem to be going behind paywalls now. This isn’t great for an educated society.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes. Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one. If I went to a paper's website i…

We absolutely need local papers, they're critical to uncovering the kind of small-town corruption that won't make the national news but still greatly impacts people.

We can't seem to support this many journalists anymore - because FB and Google suck up the advertising revenue.

Would breaking up big tech also bring back the local news room? That would be such a bonus.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #7

No surprise here. Two peas in a pod. The assault on independant journalists (e.g Substack), independant voices (e.g. Clubhouse) and others continues unabated by the likes of NY Times elitists like Taylor Lorenz. Corporate media like NY Times even covered the original 2004 Harvey Weinstein expose and regularly lies on so many internatonal issues as well. https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-bill...…

My goodness you all are so obsessed with Taylor Lorenz.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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Have you listened to any of their podcasts in the last 6 months? Their main ad is always some propaganda piece from Facebook

Not too long ago, Facebook took out a full page ad against Apple to gaslight consumers that anti-tracking was harming small business.

This company is like a perforated colon that keeps leaking feces into the collective body of society. Pretty soon we'll go into septic shock.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #5

I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes. Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one. If I went to a paper's website i…

Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers? If you don’t want the social aspect of news, you can get the AP stories through the AP News app or subscribe to rss feeds to major papers. The AP keeps papers from covering the same story from their own angle, you’ll usually see the same AP stories printed in papers across the country. I agree it’s hard to filter the news on your own and quality journalism does seem to be…

> Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers?

I'm not on an Apple platform and don't even know what this is.

I suppose it works for Apple subscribers?

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #5

I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes. Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one. If I went to a paper's website i…

Improve quality and lock down everything is an option however it will take a long time for them to win back the trust. Personally I spend around $1000 each on buying books, some of which can go towards the news papers.

For magazines I use an app called Magzter its similar to Spotify. However only looks good on an Ipad.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers? If you don’t want the social aspect of news, you can get the AP stories through the AP News app or subscribe to rss feeds to major papers. The AP keeps papers from covering the same story from their own angle, you’ll usually see the same AP stories printed in papers across the country. I agree it’s hard to filter the news on your own and quality journalism does seem to be…

> Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers? I'm not on an Apple platform and don't even know what this is. I suppose it works for Apple subscribers?

Very helpful contribution to the conversation...

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes. Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one. If I went to a paper's website i…

People have been talking about saving local news for more than 20 years. And the economics just don't work for the most part--whether in most cities or in smaller towns.

I live in about a 7,000 person town. Let's say half the people would pay $20/year for a local paper--which we had at one point. That's wildly optimistic I know. Throw in some advertising. But I'm guessing you're still something under $100K/year. So you end up with just Facebook and NextDoor and no one actually doing reporting as such.

Re: Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

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post #11
post #7

No surprise here. Two peas in a pod. The assault on independant journalists (e.g Substack), independant voices (e.g. Clubhouse) and others continues unabated by the likes of NY Times elitists like Taylor Lorenz. Corporate media like NY Times even covered the original 2004 Harvey Weinstein expose and regularly lies on so many internatonal issues as well. https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-bill...…

Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.

I mentally tune out anyone who uses the word "elitist". To me, it's one of the clearest signs that they're arguing using prejudices rather than evidence.
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