Old media genuflects to the new.   Twitter and Facebook get mentioned and appealed to for news regularly by TV and magazines.  So it’s not surprising when mainstream media outlets overlook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s feelings on privacy.  It’s not in the interest of old media to criticize an important source of advertising.  But the failures and contradictions and self-interested actions Facebook has taken lately to stem criticism over privacy concerns are slowly becoming harder to ignore by the public.  When the New York Times can spot that Facebook’s privacy policy has more words than the US Constitution something is developing.

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