facebook as a so-called media org

it's their site. they, facebook, can do whatever it wants with their site. don't like it, move on and maybe start your own service.

may 9, 2016 - weird. i thought this story made the rounds two weeks ago.

this story was posted in mid-April, and it's probably the one that I was thinking about. 
http://gizmodo.com/want-to-know-what-facebook-really-thinks-of-journalists-1773916117

new story but it seems similar to ... whatever
http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006

discussion began on may 8 about the mid-april story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11655951

top HN comment about the journalists' whining:

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Having worked with journalists, these sound like typical entitlement complaints. Frankly, a lot of writers have an attitude that they're "artists" who shouldn't be rushed and don't have performance requirements.

Frankly, it does not sound very hard at all. They have to write 20 posts a day, but each post is only a headline and a brief summary. A focused writer can finish that in 15 minutes.
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