Zuckerberg Doesn't Care About Publishers; Media Firms That Don't Work With Us Will End Up 'In Hospice': Facebook Executive (theguardian.com)

Olivia Solon, writing for The Guardian: A senior Facebook executive told Australian media companies that if they didn't cooperate with the social network, their businesses would die. According to a report by The Australian, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, told a group of more than 20 broadcasters and publishers that she wanted to help media companies develop sustainable business models through the platform. "We will help you revitalise journalism ... in a few years the reverse looks like I'll be holding your hands with your dying business like in a hospice," she said, in comments corroborated by five people who attended the meeting in Sydney on Tuesday.

The Australian also reported that Brown said that Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, "doesn't care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes," although both Facebook and Brown vehemently deny this comment was made, referring to a transcript they have from the meeting. Facebook would not release the transcript from the meeting.

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Facebook as the model??

[markdavis]

I have no love of the "big media"/"mainstream media", most of which is horribly slanted, all of which is sensationalist and becoming more absurd each year.

But Facebook, of all organizations, being the one to throw crud at the "mainstream" media, claiming THEIR business model is obsolete and should die.... and that Facebook as the answers..... well, that has to be the funniest thing I have heard in many months.

If Facebook is the alternative to the mainstream big media, then heaven help us all.