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Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the highest-bidder dept.

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.

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  1. Come on by mrclmn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do the world a favour Rupert and just die already.

  2. Slow to post by Pop69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I was laughing so much at the idea of Murdoch and quality news being in the same sentence that I passed out...

    1. Re:Slow to post by i286NiNJA · · Score: 3

      What's his point? In 2018 nobody would read shitty news sites and see their crap ads or promote murdoch's political agendas without social media.

  3. Build a Wall by jblues · · Score: 4, Funny

    Brilliant. It will be like building a wall between the consumers and a fair and balanced view, and making the consumers pay for it.

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  4. Rupert Murcoch is the definition... by blahplusplus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... 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.

  5. Re:Rupert Murdoch and Quality News? by youngone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rupert also owns The Sun. Rupert also spends more time and effort influencing governments than the Russians.

  6. Fox News is a beacon of journalistic integrity?? by riley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?

  7. If anyone did journalism, I'd probably pay for it by Riceballsan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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