I’m thinking I need to change my social media policy to read, “Don’t be stupid or snarky.”

Cheers.

But here’s where your comparison falls apart: Space journalists could go into space, but they worked their asses off to understand their topic, and I’m sure the best spend (or spent, since we don’t cover space nearly as much now) considerable time in Houston & Cape Canaveral, learning as much as they could about space. A few thousand people in NASA were more knowledgeable them but they made the effort to understand & wrote authoritatively to the general population.

But learning about Facebook is not only possible but easy. A half billion people, probably more, know more about Facebook than Bill Keller. So he shows his ignorance to most of his audience. When you can’t learn firsthand, you need to work hard to learn by less effective means. Keller passed on learning firsthand and then read or talked to a few people who agreed with him. I stand by my assessment that that was lazy journalism.

“It should not be immune from scrutiny for its affect on the culture or for its behavior as a business.”

But that may go to the issue of less editing in the digital side of the force.