Friday, February 09, 2018
Zuckerberg is right!
Though it pains me to agree with a demon, in this case the demon is doing the right thing.
Conservative "Free speech" activists are bitching because Facebook plans to put more emphasis on LOCAL non-partisan information and gossip pages.
Wrong bitching. LOCAL news is REAL JOURNALISM, the best antidote to fake news. Most of all, LOCAL news is LOCAL, not GLOBAL.
The only FB page I read is Spokane News, which operates on a very low budget and provides a place for REAL PEOPLE who are DIRECTLY INVOLVED in REAL EVENTS to tell others what's happening.
That is the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF NEWS. People need to know what's going on, and the people who are close to a situation are best able to tell the rest of us about it. You can't trust any paid "journalist" to get the facts right, even on the simplest and least partisan event. The paid "journalist" is paid to tell Deepstate's version of ALL STORIES. No exceptions, no deviations.
Before FB, other forums were theoretically available. Yahoo Groups performed the same function, but Yahoo always managed to fuck up its own stuff, making it hard to use and hard to find. A local organization could set up its own webpage, but that's expensive and time-consuming, and a separate page isn't automatically connected to a main 'switchboard'. FB minimizes the setup and offers an automatic 'switchboard'. Nobody else does it nearly as well.
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