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To: Sam who wrote (265445)	11/30/2014 11:51:46 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 540798

I can't believe this guy is still alive. Egyptian Judges Drop All Charges Against Mubarak nytimes.com

To: Sam who wrote (265445)	11/30/2014 12:18:07 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540798

I only occasionally use Facebook in a very limited way, so not sure how the 'news' algorithm works. But the items I see on my feed are generally incredibly stupid. Kind of a dumbed down National Enquirer. I don't post or follow that kind of stuff, but apparently some 'friends' do? Or it is purely an editorial decision by Facebook. Who knows. Young people are leaving Facebook in droves for other social media outlets. It will be interesting to see what brings along the 'next big thing.' I'm thinking The Matrix.... "Sir, your life support/energy generating capsule is ready.."

To: Sam who wrote (265445)	11/30/2014 1:58:09 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 540798

This has already happened, with Facebook having little to do with it. I have "my" news sources bookmarked, and my first read in the morning is Newser, a news aggregator website that I have set to deliver the news that interests me. No sports or celebrity news please! All of our right wingnuts have been doing the same for years. All you have to do is go to LindyBill's thread, check a few of his re-posts of news articles, and you'll see they're all from the same list of right-wing sources. As our news delivery gets smarter, tracking our clicks and the time between them (spent reading), it will tune it's personal delivery finer and finer, until we're being fed just what we want to read. It will go out and find things that suit us, and offer them up. The customer is always right! Our advertising already does this. What the end result of this will be, I don't know. In my lifetime, I've seen news change from families across America all watching one of three TV network news shows, to today's individual fragmentation. Then, Walter Cronkite turning against the Vietnam War was a tipping point for America. A lot of younger people don't even own a television, but get all their news by watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert clips they stream on their phones. They probably get more truth there than they would watching the actual news. But, there must be gaping holes in what they know. You judge it bad, but I don't. It's just change, that will continue to happen at an ever increasing rate.