Facebook Product Director Mike Hudack Posts Rant Against CNN, Nation's Media
Mike Hudack, Facebook's director of product, wrote a lengthy, self-proclaimed rant Thursday in which he blasts the current state of the media and its lack of serious news coverage.
In his rant he posted to Facebook, he praised CNN for its past coverage with reporters such as Bernie Shaw, John Holliman and Peter Arnett but then blasts the news organization for its coverage of kidnapped white girls.
Hudack also called the nation's newspapers "ghosts in a shell," because they have "been almost entirely hollowed out, however, he does give exception to The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
"(The media) just report what people tell them, whether it's Cheney pulling Judith Miller's strings or Snowden through the proxy of Glenn Greenwald doing roughly the same," Hudack lamented. "They seem incapable of breaking real, meaningful news at Internet speed. It's why they like Twitter so much. Twitter does the hard work for them."
Hudack's scathing rant included most of the big name media outlets as well as a few specific journalists such as Meet the Press' David Gregory. Although he referred to Vice as gonzo journalists, he credited them for "journalistic bravery" because of its news coverage in dangerous locations.
He certainly didn't hold back any punches for CNN's two main cable news competitors --- Fox News and MSNBC -- as he claimed that they "care more about telling their views what they want to hear than informing the national conversation in any meaningful way."
"Evening newscasts are jokes, and copycat television newsmagazines have turned into tabloids -- 'OK' rather than Time. 60 Minutes lives on, suffering only the occasional scandal," Hudack said. "More young Americans get their news from The Daily Show than from Brokaw's replacement."
Lastly, Hudack said the online publication Vox was a positive format for serious journalism but fell short recently for posting stories about how to properly wash denim jeans.
"Personally I hoped that we would find a new home for serious journalism in a format that felt Internet-native and natural to people who grew up interacting with screens instead of just watching from couches with bags of popcorn and a beer to keep their hands busy," he said. "And instead they write stupid stories about how you should wash your jeans instead of freezing them."
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