[antielectronite]

I think one reason journalists are having a moral panic about tech is that a lot of them seem to have a very unhealthy twitter addiction, which clouds their view on the impact social media has on society.

A lot of media people seem to spend ~8 hours tweeting almost everyday, which is obviously unhealthy but not indicative of how most people use "big tech".

[csallen]

Tech -- especially social media -- is often directly competitive with old media, and has for years at this point posed an existential threat. From Jobs wanting a 30% cut of the Times' revenue on iOS, to Amazon's cutthroat relationship with the publishing industry, Thiel's lawsuit against Gawker, Google search/news controlling distribution, Facebook's algorithm changes literally ending numerous media companies, etc., it's been pretty nonstop for over a decade now.

Always worth a mention when speculating as to why journalists tend to be so anti-tech nowadays.

[firasd]

Yeah. Interesting article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/covington-twitter...

[CriticalCathed]

Replace twitter with facebook/instagram and there you go. People spend hours and hours a day on there.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Journalists don't have a choice, social media is the largest medium for consumption of News(or Title?).

For years News has been the least downloaded segment in the Appstore/Playstore[1], there was a chance to revive RSS when the social media got into trouble for fake news, but even that opportunity is lost as Google/Apple has repositioned themselves in the News segment.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categorie...