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What self-serving nonsense. Facebook & Google don’t use our content: they point readers to it. They don’t “take” our ads: they offer advertisers a better product...
A world without news: Papers publish blank front pages to highlight industry struggles https://globalnews.ca/news/7617779/canada-news-industry-newspapers-blank-struggles-journalism/
A world without news: Papers publish blank front pages to highlight industry struggles https://globalnews.ca/news/7617779/canada-news-industry-newspapers-blank-struggles-journalism/
And they don’t typically sell advertising off “our” content, ie the links sending readers to our pages. Look at Google News. See many ads there?
It’s ironic that the publishers should be mounting this disinformation campaign in the name of stemming the tide of “fake news.”
It’s ironic that the publishers should be mounting this disinformation campaign in the name of stemming the tide of “fake news.”
Where does Google sell ads off our content? ON OUR WEBPAGES. They sell them and place them, in exchange for a cut of the revenues. That’s right: not only do they send readers our way, they sell our ads for us.
Meanwhile, what’s the first thing you see atop any story on a newspaper site? A button urging readers to “share this” on Facebook, Twitter etc. Indeed, we post links to all our stories on these sites ourselves. So much for Facebook “stealing” our content.
The publishers’ argument is so gaga in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin.
What their case really boils down to is this: FacebookGoogle have a lot of money. We don’t. Make them give some of theirs to us.
What their case really boils down to is this: FacebookGoogle have a lot of money. We don’t. Make them give some of theirs to us.
