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Re:The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroyi... by WildUtah on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:38AM (#13678592)
Facebook should not a lone scapegoat

Actually it was Craigslist. Back before the internet, the single biggest pot of newspaper revenue was classified ads.

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Re:The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroyi... by kraftomatic on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:15AM (#13678698)
I think Craigslist is a US problem. Internationally I think the traditional news approach has had many different challenges. Classified advertising also has had different challenges around the world, such as dedicated publications.
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Re:The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroyi... by rjvir on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:37AM (#13678755)
The fundamental challenge is that of having hand-delivered paper newspapers be the centralized hub of information.

Any manifestation of the Internet makes that obsolete - but the specific method of obsoletion may be different by country.

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