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Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Rupert Murdoch, the media billionaire who controls the Wall Street Journal, called on Facebook to begin paying publishers fees to carry the news that its users post and share online in a sign of the print industry's growing frustration with social media. "If Facebook wants to recognize 'trusted' publishers then it should pay those publishers a carriage fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies," Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp. said Monday in a statement. "The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and content but are not being adequately rewarded for those services." "Facebook and Google have popularized scurrilous news sources through algorithms that are profitable for these platforms but inherently unreliable," Murdoch said. "Recognition of a problem is one step on the pathway to cure, but the remedial measures that both companies have so far proposed are inadequate, commercially, socially and journalistically." Murdoch, who also leads 21st Century Fox, called for a system similar to that in cable television, where large distributors like Comcast and AT&T pay fees to the TV network owners that attract their viewers.
Do the world a favour Rupert and just die already.
Fox "News" is the original fake news, and only uneducated racists and right wing snowflakes take their obvious pandering and misinformation seriously.
Social media gives you shit; if you expected more from it, then you're an idiot.
Right wing forums ought to pay up for posting news summaries, too, or will they receive a "discount" due to their political ideology?
In the same sentence?
Is that supposed to be a joke?
There's a reason we call it Faux News.
Sorry, I was laughing so much at the idea of Murdoch and quality news being in the same sentence that I passed out...
We'll get the best news money can buy?
Brilliant. It will be like building a wall between the consumers and a fair and balanced view, and making the consumers pay for it.
If it acquires resources on instantiation like a duck, then its a shared_ptr<Duck>
... of fake news. I love this bullshit that mainstream media has been pushing. The reality is the elites have lost control of the public mind and don't like it.
And I actually buy a print copy of the WSJ once or twice each week.
Just say NO!
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And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?
Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 (Christopher Columbus the jew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C... sailed to the US for them to create it), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?... just like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis. Zucker @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions)
Elites, mainstream media, ...
Fox News IS the mainstream media. They are the #1 Cable news network.
Elites? WTF are the elites?
Fox News makes people uninformed; NPR informs them. I know, I know, Forbes is a Liberal rag.
Or how Fox News makes folks less informed than those that don't even watch the news! Again, NPR for the best informed.
And I don't know about you, but I consider Rupert Murdoch to be an elite himself - you know, a billionaire who has huge amounts of political power.
from a guy who bet the world on traditional media, paywalled all his assets, and cant seem to figure out why he cant monetize news the same way he did 40 years ago.
buying your news doesnt guarantee its quality, only that there will be money to produce more of the news youve chosen to consume. Independent editors, journalists, and newsrooms all ensure quality news but Murdoch wouldnt know anything about that as hes spent his life famously buying these outlets up and transforming them into nothing more than neoconservative political bullhorns.
Good people go to bed earlier.
How exactly is he in the US? He's an australian. The best news in the US is probably the Strategic Forecast.
I mean I know it's your job to post this shit but at least put in effort. You're by far the least believable shill I've ever seen and that's saying a lot. You should't post on slashdot because we're a nation of trolls from well before 4chan or in your case dvachan and we see right through you, I'm getting 2nd hand troll embarrassment from you.
Right now it seems like we've got 2 real camps for news. The mainstream media, which 99% of the time their extent of "journalism" is to read the press releases/talking points of the corporations, politicians, political parties etc... that help fund them, and expend zero resources finding out whether any of it is actually true or not. Then we have the wild west of free media. A world where they take the same press releases, then pull out of their ass whatever interpretation and guesses they can make from that fit the bias's of the target audience. Neither type is worth the pixels on the screen they are written on
...make Facebook do that. Have fun trying...
Sasha's first day on trolling job, please go easy on him.
Seriously, that is some 100% Pure, Organic, Dolphin-Free QUALITY Bullshit he peddles. You gotta hand him that.
And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?
During the election, I actually had no trouble finding Fox's coverage of the same stories Trump supporters refused to read because it came from the "biased liberal media". Of course, once I posted a link to Fox, they still wouldn't read it, because that's cognitive dissonance for you.
Heck, it wasn't even that hard to find an article on Breitbart where they're not exactly singing the praises of Trump's tax plan. But I'm sure those drinking the kool aid just see it as an acceptable casualty of making sure the country isn't ruined by those damned snowflake liberals, or something like that.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Rupert doesn't get it. The news companies that he owns are some of the perpetrators of the fake news. Facebook paying him when facebook's users post a link to something isn't going to improve the quality.
It would make him some extra cash, but it wouldn't improve anything other than his bottom line.
In a way, that's the Facebook solution. Start your own news service. If Musk can start his own space program, you can do at least that, Zuckerberg!
And no, not just buying a paper like Bezos. Start from the ground up. Hire beat reporters. Hire an editor (and a few fact-checkers and proofreaders). Bug around for press passes (and publicize what they made you promise to get one). Et cetera.
If the news you keep promoting keeps turning out to be fake, find out and write about your own news.
AC
BBC does real journalism, as you describe it.
They have a huge network of reporters around the world, embedded in the local cultures for years at a time, picking up the kind of fascinating news stories that I don't see elsewhere.
Listen to the programme 'From Our Own Correspondent' for a taste. US listeners don't need to worry. Most of what's covered hasn't reached the US level of attention needed to give it partisan spin yet...
True there are other bits of the BBC that don't do real journalism as you describe. But anyone who decides to attack that side of it as a means to attack the real journalism is being pointless.
That is all.
I mean, the people publishing news under the Murdoch empire are getting paid, and yet, there's no precedence for quality there.
If money was changing hands, would it help the "fake news" problem on facebook?
... restricting what people know to authorised propaganda channels.
With cash. It was better when even politicians would call each other out for a duel.
He's asking facebook to pay "trusted news sources" for content. None of Murdoch's outlets even remotely qualify as that.
If facebook ends up paying for Wall Street Journal content, then the full content should be available to all facebook users. Not just a couple sentences like it is today.
Fox News - as watched (and regularly praised) by the US President!
Tells you all you need to know ;-)
The mainstream media, which 99% of the time their extent of "journalism" is . . . a world where they take the same press releases, then pull out of their ass whatever interpretation and guesses they can make . . . that fit their bias's . . .
FIFY
Traditional, mainstream media created a market for facts not tainted by the bias of the left, which is why Fox News and other alternative outlets were able to rise to power and success. It's also why fake news became possible. You simply can't trust traditional media outlets to be honest.
If you want the facts, the best policy is to get both sides of the story from diverse outlets.
Baloney. Shill piece for UK elites.
If you can't see the difference you should probably not vote
There we go.
Step 1: only allow people who think like you to vote
Step 2: force people who don't think like you to wear a visible mark on their clothes
Step 3: start sterilizing them
You lovely tolerant liberals have started your journey to pure evil, and to the bitter end you'll keep thinking that you were right. What a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites.
Used to tell people like you to go to hell, but lately I've started to wonder if we're not there already.
lucm, indeed.