Facebook courts journalists and invites them to the first gathering

In a time of technological revolution that mainly affects journalists, Facebook has noticed the category by dedicating a "fan page". Facebook Journalists' Page It has an easy-to-remember address (www.facebook.com/journalist) and is aimed at the group that, perhaps more than any other, has recently been subjected to all kinds of harassment from those who believe that the "sacred right to information" also includes the right to copy and paste other people's content. Facebook is calling on journalists from around the world to join them at a gathering in Palo Alto, California, on April 27.

I don't want to dwell on a topic that, in some respects, represents my personal battle. vytorin genericIt's true. However, I'm sometimes forced, despite myself, to witness a "target shooting" against journalists, as if they were the perpetrators of every misdeed and problem. To think, instead, that in this period of great technological transformation and economic crisis, it's precisely journalists who are experiencing "oxygen debt." Let's be clear, the fault lies not with the passing of time or the changes underway. In my humble opinion (to paraphrase a very wise elder), the blame lies partly with the profession that hasn't adapted and evolved (fortunately not all of it, but a large part) and with a jungle that the Internet has brought to light, despite the balance tipping more toward the Web than the "offline" world.

But the profession, contrary to what many would like, despite a thousand difficulties (temporary workers abound and grow disproportionately) and a lack of innovation, is still standing. And it's the young generation we must count on, bright and dynamic minds sometimes far removed from aging editors unwilling to adapt to the passing of time. And it's from young people and modern journalist colleagues (even those well into their 40s) that we must start again, with a keen eye on "social media," which isn't a "dirty word," as some would have you believe, but represents new platforms for conveying information that can thus more easily reach everywhere, even where freedom of information isn't tinged with democracy.

And so Facebook invites us. I don't particularly love this platform (on the contrary, I love Twitter), but challenges attract me. So why not follow the page Facebook created to honor us journalists? If only to thank those who still hold information professionals in high regard. They don't represent a caste, as many would imply, but simply a profession (take your pick) that retains its appeal even in the world of technology.