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I think one reason journalists are having a moral panic about tech is that a lot of them seem to have a very unhealthy twitter addiction, which clouds their vie
by antielectronite 7y ago
I think one reason journalists are having a moral panic about tech is that a lot of them seem to have a very unhealthy twitter addiction, which clouds their view on the impact social media has on society.
A lot of media people seem to spend ~8 hours tweeting almost everyday, which is obviously unhealthy but not indicative of how most people use "big tech".
- firasd 7y agoYeah. Interesting article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/covington-twitter.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/covington-twitter...
- CriticalCathed 7y agoReplace twitter with facebook/instagram and there you go. People spend hours and hours a day on there.
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- csallen 7y agoTech -- especially social media -- is often directly competitive with old media, and has for years at this point posed an existential threat. From Jobs wanting a 30% cut of the Times' revenue on iOS, to Amazon's cutthroat relationship with the publishing industry, Thiel's lawsuit against Gawker, Google search/news controlling distribution, Facebook's algorithm changes literally ending numerous media companies, etc., it's been pretty nonstop for over a decade now. Always worth a mention when speculating as to why journalists tend to be so anti-tech nowadays.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoJournalists don't have a choice, social media is the largest medium for consumption of News(or Title?). For years News has been the least downloaded segment in the Appstore/Playstore[1], there was a chance to revive RSS when the social media got into trouble for fake news, but even that opportunity is lost as Google/Apple has repositioned themselves in the News segment. [1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categories-in-the-app-store/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categorie...