Week 2 story 3

Why Facebook is "Public enemy number 1" for newspapers and journalism

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/20/why-facebook-is-public-enemy-number-one-for-newspapers-and-journalism

This post by the Guardian argues that Facebook is the reason to why the newspaper industry is dying out. One quote reads "She writes: “It is likely that protecting journalism is not a priority for Facebook, where engineers hold the power and the solution is nearly always sought through technology.”. This is in favour of new and digital media developments but it does show how easy some jobs can me made redundant.

The article also goes on to say that with the use of new technology, Facebook are almost forcing people what to read with the introduction of the "trending section", this directs peoples attention away from other news stories to what their algorithms and systems think you would want. This raises privacy concerns as to what companies like Facebook are allowed and what we allow to take from us.

I do agree with most of the issues raised in the article, including the main one, although it was inevitable that the use of new machines and technology would change the media and start making jobs redundant but not much can be done as people who use the internet aren't speaking out about the decline in newspapers and journalists.