Facebook woos journalists and invites them to its first summit

At a time of technological revolution that mainly affects journalists, Facebook has taken notice of this group by dedicating a “fan page” to them. The Facebook journalists’ page has an easy-to-remember address (www.facebook.com/journalist) and is aimed at the very category that, more than others in recent times, has been suffering all kinds of abuse from those who believe that the “sacred right to information” also gives them the right to copy and paste other people’s content. Facebook is calling on journalists all over the world, inviting them to a meeting that will be held in Palo Alto, California, on April 27.

I don’t want to dwell on a topic that, in some aspects, is my personal battle, vytorin generic. However, it is true that sometimes I am forced, against my will, to witness a “target practice” against journalists, as if they were responsible for every wrongdoing and problem. Instead, we should consider that in this period of great technological changes and economic crisis, it is journalists who are “gasping for air.” To be clear, the blame does not lie with the passage of time or ongoing changes. In my humble opinion (to paraphrase a wise elderly person), the blame lies partly with the profession itself, which has not adapted and evolved (thankfully not all, but a large part), and with the jungle that the Internet has brought to light, even though the scales are tipping more toward online than the “offline” world.

But the profession, contrary to what many would like, despite countless difficulties (with an abundance of precarious workers and that number ever-increasing) and little innovation, is still standing. And it is the new generations we need to rely on—thinking minds with a dynamism that is often far removed from the older editors who don’t want to adapt to changing times. It is from the young and modern journalist colleagues (even those well past forty) that we must start again, with winks toward “social media,” which is not a “bad word” as some suggest, but instead are new platforms for conveying information, which can now reach everywhere, even where freedom of information does not look like democracy.

And now Facebook invites us. I am not particularly fond of this platform (on the contrary, I love Twitter), but challenges attract me. So, why not follow the page that Facebook created to honor us journalists? If only to thank those who still have some respect for professionals in information, who are not a caste, as many like to claim, but simply a trade or a profession (take your pick) that retains its appeal even in the world of technology.