Facebook hurting journalism
Posted: October 25, 2007
This is my own rebuttal to my last post.
In the last couple of days, while researching this topic, I’ve discovered that there are plenty complaints about journalists’ misuse of Facebook.
Liz Losh of VirtualPolitik wrote in August that she believes newspapers, including her hometown paper, The Los Angeles Times, have been using Facebook to collect details about crime stories from the involved parties’ Facebook profiles.
A grossly neglectful attempt at reporting, Losh likens the lazy practice to her students writing entire papers based on Wikipedia articles.
I typed “according to his Facebook profile” into Google and quickly got a hit. The first article that showed up was from the Yale Daily News. The article makes numerous references to facts scraped off a recently arrested man’s profile. Here is another example from The (Charlottesville, Va.) Daily Progress.
Check out why one Northwestern University student thinks “Facebook is a better journalist than you are.”
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