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Facebook Had A Rough Media Day
And it started early
Mark Zuckerberg has been on the front page of newspapers so often you’d think he co-founded a legendary company in college.
I decided to look into it — the coverage seemed a bit excessive. After all, how problematic could Facebook be?
I typed the iconic company’s name into my favorite search engine.
What I saw made me act out a scene from the classic rom-com Roxanne, which starred Steve Martin.
Martin’s character stops to read a local newspaper, then expresses his horror at the headlines.
He screams, then shoves the newspaper back from whence it came and flees.
This list was one morning for Facebook
A magistrate judge ordered the company to release information about attacks against a minority group in a foreign country.
Then a well-known talking head from 20th-century national news programs sued it for defamation.
