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Big news outlets stupidly sold their soul to Facebook. Desperate for the referral traffic Facebook dangled, they spent the past few years jumping through its hoops only to be cut out of the equation. Instead of developing an owned audience of homepage visitors and newsletter subscribers, they let Facebook brainwash readers into thinking it was their source of information.
Now Facebook is pushing into local news, but publishers should be wary of making the same crooked deal. It might provide more exposure and traffic for smaller outlets today, but it could teach users they only need to visit Facebook for local news in the future. Here's how Facebook retrained us over the past 12 years to drain the dollars out of news.
Source : How Facebook stole the news business
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Monday February 05 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
In a related story, the local Rag of Record can't get its delivery people to actually deliver the dead-trees version to people's doorsteps. My senior citizen neighbors are all talking of cancelling their subscriptions because they can't bend down to get the newspaper from under the rose bush, or climb onto the porch roof to fetch it after an errant sky-ball from the delivery driver who can't be bothered to even get out of his car while delivering. These are people who want to read the newspaper, but can't because the newspaper won't actually deliver to them.
In further news, old man yells at cloud.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:47PM
To be fair the cloud was peeing on the old dude's lawn.