Anyone notice that the newspaper founded to champion free markets, free enterprise, de-regulation and small government is now ~50% corporate welfare propaganda?pic.twitter.com/5wtQfEp3gX
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Anyone notice that the newspaper founded to champion free markets, free enterprise, de-regulation and small government is now ~50% corporate welfare propaganda?pic.twitter.com/5wtQfEp3gX
Getting Facebook & Google to pay for the links they profit from is not "corporate welfare" unless you think all copyright laws are corporate welfare.
You do know that newspapers can flip a switch that stops Google & Facebook from posting their content, right?
So, either pull your content from the largest platforms or accept those platforms get all the revenue from people viewing your content? Reminds me of arguments in favour of unpaid internships
3rd option: accept that monetizing social media hits is both terrible for the quality of news and puts the fate of your news business in the hands of malevolent tech dicks, and instead build subscription-based businesses funded by people who actually care about your product.
So subscription gate your content on all major platforms? I can see this working for the NYT and the Economist. You see it working for the Ottawa Citizen. Papers seeing COVID spikes still face extinction from ad collapse. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/newsonomics-what-was-once-unthinkable-is-quickly-becoming-reality-in-the-destruction-of-local-news/ …
You need to somehow demonstrate that subscription revenue alone can replace previous subscription+ad revenue. Outside the NYT or philanthropic backed papers, where has that happened?
I do? Why would you imagine that the next viable business model for news will account for every dollar lost to disruption? What entitles this industry to perpetual double-digit profit margins at corporate scale?
What entitles Facebook & Google to profit from work done by others? There business model is an artifice created by laws, which can be changed to allow for more even distribution of revenue.
The consent of those others to let FB & Google do so?
The same logic used to justify paying people sweatshop wages -- "they consented to it, didn't they?" But consent to a bad bargain only exists in a legal frame-work, which can be changed if needed.
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