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It's funny because the NYT pushed an entire beat about companies needing to limit their digital advertising to only respected outlets...you know, like the NYT.
by creaghpatr 10y ago
It's funny because the NYT pushed an entire beat about companies needing to limit their digital advertising to only respected outlets...you know, like the NYT.
In hindsight it was easy for them to play up the "offensive content" straw man, get a few execs riled up, and convince google to kill their upstart competitors.
- JuliusKaiser 10y agoMedia plays both sides of the coin because they don't care about what happens to other media sources, they care about the ad revenue from clicks to their site. Playing both sides of the coin only increases clicks since both perspectives are engaged.
- snerbles 10y agoOr enough of the legacy media sees the clicks as a zero-sum game, and seeks to strangle the competition before it gets too powerful.
- makomk 10y agoPrecisely. It's not "YouTube's shifting algorithms" that are killing independent media, it's the wave of bad publicity in publications like the New York Times that lead to advertisers pulling out and made allowing ads on anything even vaguely political or controversial an existential danger to YouTube. The algorithms didn't do this by itself. And the clear-cut line between "videos that espoused extremism and hate speech" and "video makers who bear no resemblance to terrorist sympathizers and racists" that the NYT is attacking YouTube for not recognising doesn't exist. There are definitely loud, vocal, media-connected groups who classify The David Pakman Show under the former category, for example, because of his choice of guests.
- Oxitendwe 10y agoTerrorist sympathizers are equivalent to racists now?
- Danihan 10y agoHell, Google themselves celebrated a terrorist sympathizer with a special custom doodle. - http://www.vox.com/2016/5/19/11713686/yuri-kochiyama http://www.vox.com/2016/5/19/11713686/yuri-kochiyama - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/CSWQzrBOfjU https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/CSW...
- Oxitendwe 10y agoIt really tells us a lot about their values and priorities when they celebrate (by making doodles) people like that instead of, for example, Easter.
- whyenot 10y agoIt's sort of weird to blame the New York Times when the articles that prompted the change in YouTube advertising were not published by the NYT. They were published by the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London.