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Re:Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations by donohoe on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:16PM (#26864448)
The news/reporting side of the organization and the Opinion group are very very separate.

It's important to look at the news gathering side. Reporters don't take to being told to 'go easy on this group cos we have business ties' - that usually provides the opposite response.

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Re:Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations by tsimionescu on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:18PM (#26868085)
Sure, reporters don't like it, but it doesn't matter, because editors decide what ultimately gets printed.
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Re:Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations by kgog on Monday April 19, 2021 @01:39PM (#26865680)
This x1000.

Although on HN, the core message is "media bad, cos good" so I doubt that people will want to understand how media orgs actually work.

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Re:Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations by whimsicalism on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:08PM (#26868858)
As someone who was raised in a news media household by two editors, "writers calling the shots" is exactly not how media orgs actually work.
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