Week 2 - 'Why Facebook is public enemy number one for newspapers, and journalism'

'Why Facebook is public enemy number one for newspapers, and journalism'

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/20/why-facebook-is-public-enemy-number-one-for-newspapers-and-journalism

There has been criticism around Facebook and how it is luring away readers and advertisers. 

• Jemima Kiss, in her article, "A Giant May Eat Us," says she contends that the world’s leading social media site is exerting both an “increasing domination of internet advertising revenue and control of a significant part of a critical distribution platform.”
• Users put loads of information about themselves online in order for advertising to be targeted at them through the idea of data mining and cookies, newspapers are unable to do this
• Social media is killing all other traditional means of media and journalism 

I personally do think that social media is killing traditional media platforms as everything is accessible on one site now so why would we need to go and buy a newspaper when we can be updated with news stories on Facebook. It makes it easier for us and in a generation that is lazy and wants everything within the touch of a button, it makes it easy to see what choice we'd rather make.