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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by lugg on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:57PM (#16386045)
Exactly what do newspapers and cable news have in common with each other that Facebook doesn't?
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by shkkmo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:14PM (#16386203)
They pay reporters.
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by PeterisP on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:35PM (#16386820)
Quite many of them don't, many (most?) not-top newspapers re-publish news gathered by others; many (most?) cable companies don't produce any news content themselves but just provide access to a bunch of news channels. Those still are media companies.
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by reaperducer on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:51PM (#16387508)
> many (most?) not-top newspapers re-publish news gathered by others

If you're referring to AP and other news services, they pay quite a lot for that, so the reporters are paid. Also, they contribute their own stories from their paid reporters to the service for other members to share.

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by vuln on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:37PM (#16386370)
Facebook employs moderators.
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by Godel_unicode on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:17PM (#16387208)
You don't see a difference between a moderator and a reporter in terms of content creation?
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by coloredtopbar on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:51PM (#16386959)
In other words: Facebook doesn't employ journalists, certainly not to do journalism.
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