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Anyone surprised? I mean that's just what Google does and did from the very early days. I am more ashamed that politicians worldwide have done basically nothin
by Tarsul 1y ago
Anyone surprised? I mean that's just what Google does and did from the very early days.
I am more ashamed that politicians worldwide have done basically nothing to help media companies in the last 25 years.
We can always ask ourselves: What is more important for our society: independent media or our search overlords?
- triceratops 1y ago> politicians worldwide have done basically nothing to help media companies Is that really surprising? Good journalists consider it their job to hold politicians accountable.
- Tarsul 1y agobut that cuts both ways. They hold not only your own party accountable but also the other parties. Thus, if you are a politican that has a moral compass and believe you are the one who does the best job, then you would like a well-respected media organisation because you would think that it hits the other guys more often than yourself. But yes.. this only works so long as the amount of politicans with a moral compass are a majority... the moment this changes is the moment that the media is the enemy.
- rightbyte 1y agoGoogle is doing some sort of LLM copyright laundering. The earlier version was bad for the sites but with the new one most likely decreases click throughs even more.
- rmah 1y agoWhy should they help media companies?
- teeray 1y agoBecause an informed public helps the proper functioning of a democracy (I know, I know, it’s a hilarious thing to say in the US)
- aaronbaugher 1y ago[flagged]
- input_sh 1y agoDo you usually get your news from The Christian Post or is this a one off thing?
- junto 1y agoI think that’s a good question. If they did their jobs properly, acting as the 4th estate, then I’d be much more supportive. However the last action I can remember that fulfilled checks and counterbalances was the publication of the Snowden files. After that the press died and it’s never recovered. Journalists are too scared and media companies neutered, and no longer have what it takes to call out the executive.
- Spivak 1y agoI mean Fox News seemed to be pretty darn good at calling out Biden and made it their personal mission to hate everything Obama touched. Why aren't people comfortable calling out Trump? Because he's made it clear he will and has retaliated against anyone who does. We've implicitly relied on the "courtesy" of the executive to just sit there and take it for the good of the country and public discussion. But now that time seems to have passed. No more high road and turning the other cheek.
- fumar 1y agoManufacturing consent from the media owners owners.
- xboxnolifes 1y ago> Why aren't people comfortable calling out Trump? I feel like all the new I ever see is calling out Trump. I don't think it's doing anything though.
- skywhopper 1y agoThey have to get the content they repurpose without permission from somewhere.
- tehjoker 1y agoThere should be a national media company. Instead we have national media companies with no democratic oversight and labor abuse.
- holoduke 1y agoWhat? Media companies sold their souls to big capital and Journalists write to serve engagement.
- ekianjo 1y agoMedia companies are heavily subsidized everywhere in the world and that's precisely because of politicians.
- bamboozled 1y agoPoliticians hate Media companies, sometimes they deserve the hate but there is almost no reality where having accurate, objective news reporting is beneficial for politicians.
- DaSHacka 1y ago> there is almost no reality where having accurate, objective news reporting is beneficial for politicians. Well it's a good thing for politicians they haven't had to deal with that for a long, long time.
- asadotzler 1y agoGoogle used to send traffic to my site. Now it scrapes my site and serves summaries of my site on its site, sending me zero human traffic but a whole lot of expensive bot traffic.