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If there’s market value for news then news sellers should stop giving it away for free and starting charging a price. If press barons instead want to leverage
by gorgoiler 6y ago
If there’s market value for news then news sellers should stop giving it away for free and starting charging a price.
If press barons instead want to leverage free news to gain power and influence then who cares if the cost of doing so in 2021 is much higher than in 1981?
So what if the emergence of Google et al indirectly pushed up the price of tabloid influence over democracy?
- yarcob 6y ago> news sellers should stop giving it away for free and starting charging a price But that's exactly what they are trying to do? The news stories obviously have a value for Facebook, and the publishers are trying to get them to pay for it. Radio stations also pay royalties to play music, why shouldn't websites have to pay royalties for content they show in their feeds?
- gorgoiler 6y agoI’m not sure the analogy holds. Radio in its current form is a marketing device for new music and stations get paid by record labels in order to feature new releases.