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One flaw with the comparison is that event organizers submit their upcoming events to the newspaper and may even agree to an interview if the newspaper thought
by II2II 2y ago
One flaw with the comparison is that event organizers submit their upcoming events to the newspaper and may even agree to an interview if the newspaper thought it worthy enough to write their own blurb. In some cases the event organizers will be paying to appear in the events list. Notice how the event organizers are making most of the decisions. The incentives are also completely different. Those events lists are promotional tools in the eyes of event organizers. They benefit from being in them.
With respect to news organizations and social media, they (or at least a subset of them) felt that social media companies were receiving a disproportionate benefit from their product. What resulted was a battle of the titans, where pretty much everyone loses out. It's important to remember that bit about titans. Both the news organizations and social media companies are taking their stance to benefit themselves, not consumers.
- seryoiupfurds 2y agoNews organisations would routinely post links to their latest stories using their official social media accounts. Don't you think they would have stopped if they felt they were being harmed by it?
- II2II 2y agoThat's why I made the comment about disproportionate benefit. It is clear that news organizations want, or at least feel compelled, to use social media as a promotional tool under some circumstances. Yet they don't like the terms that social media sites offer them. In some respects, I don't blame them. If most people just skim the headlines and never click through to read the article, newspapers would be better served by their readership going to their own landing page. The other option is to recognize that the title and summary have intrinsic value, in which case the news organizations should have the right to request compensation. I realize that there are other factors to consider here. For example: end users sharing links, either as information or to solicit discussion, should be considered a form of expression. Unfortunately, the business interests of social media sites muddies the waters.
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