Facebook’s recently-announced news tab will provide a reliable place for Americans to find accurate reporting, credible journalism and truthiness — far from the fake news and disinformation of social media. Is this good news for fact-hungry Americans and a rebirth of actual journalism, or is it the final death knell of the great American newspaper, and just one more reason journalists should “learn to code”?
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4 replies on “Facebook Saves Journalism and Truthiness (Should Reporters Still Learn to Code?)”
I’m just waiting for our government to start making laws against “fake news” (with stiff penalties, of course). That’s when we’ll know we’re really in trouble. Maybe the gov’t can starts its own newspaper called “Pravda” (truth). Oh wait, that’s been done already…
Any current reporter who needs to learn to code due to of a lack of ethics, morality or skill … is incapable of learning. I suggest that they be allowed to starve, which will eventually remove their blight from society.
If they can’t be trusted to present the news objectively, their code can’t be trusted either. They might be able to get away with it within present day journalism. However good code (code that really does work) cannot be based upon wishes, lies, distortions, and misdirection. It requires an absolute honesty, integrity, and firm contact with reality way beyond that required of the clergy or the pope.
If it has to be announced that the content is True, it likely isn’t. I don’t go to Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, and the like to find The Truth. In fact, I avoid going to Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google et.al. for anything in particular.