Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo

BarbaraHudson writes The Register is reporting that money set aside from a deal with France's publishers is going to pay for the printing of 1 million copies of next weeks' Charlie Hebdo, "Eight of the 12 people killed were journalists attending an editorial meeting, however, a senior editor and the magazine's chief executive were in London at the time of the attack. They have vowed to do a massive 1 million copy print run next week – Charlie Hebdo's circulation is normally around 60k. The cash will come from €60m fund (€20m per year over three years) that supports digital publishing innovation. The fund was set up in 2013 following negotiations between Google and the French government as a remedy to demands from European publishers that Google pay for displaying news snippets in its search results.

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Cheap publicity stunt

[should_be_linear]

After "Assange" and "Snowden" PR disasters, Google is trying to win some love back. Lets not forget however, that this company is married to US government, main force behind creating whole armies of terrorists.

KKK Publications

[BradMajors]

Suggestion to Google:

You seem to want to support racist publications. How about providing some financial support to some American racists? The KKK is a persecuted organization and could use your financial support.