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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.
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...
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.
with Rupert you already get the best news money buys. To be fair though I can't think of any news source that is independent of financial or political influence, just Rupert's organisations bias is so blatantly obvious it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Most of the media long ago sold out.
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?
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.
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
Seriously, that is some 100% Pure, Organic, Dolphin-Free QUALITY Bullshit he peddles. You gotta hand him that.
How exactly is he in the US? He's an australian.
Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985.
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.
Meh. We have yet to see right-wing snowflakes in real life; meanwhile they're a dime a dozen on the liberal side.
Here you go: On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’
Lots of dimes and dozens on both sides.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .