BY BILL PHILLIPS
Media mogul that I am, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Twitter, X, Twix, or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
The hate part is pretty obvious: I toiled in the newspaper industry and saw, firsthand, advertising dollars move from print to Facebook, Google, et al. On top of that, community groups and organizations no longer needed newspapers to get the word out about local events … and they could do it for free.
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