CFP: Struggling online news outlets would have to be more than just hopelessly naive to believe that a relatively new ‘New Media Alliance’ leading the battle for survival up against Internet giants Google and Facebook is fighting for them.
How could any online outlet believe in an Alliance in which the New York Times is an active member?
Hello New Media Alliance? Independent news outlets calling!
“So what we used to call “the newspaper industry”—but which now includes outlets with robust online existences—is coming together to make its biggest push so far to change the balance of power. (NYT, July 9, 2017)
“This week, a group of news organizations will begin an effort to win the right to negotiate collectively with the big online platforms and will ask for a limited antitrust exemption from Congress in order to do so.
“It’s an extreme measure with long odds. But the industry considers it worth a shot, given its view that Google and Facebook, regardless of their intentions, are posing a bigger threat economically than President Trump is (so far) with his rhetoric.”
Talk about getting things bass-ackwards. It is not Google and Facebook who are posing a bigger threat to online outlets, but the mainstream media’s reliance on Fake News, which it uses to try to shut them out.
The New Media Alliance, is the old one still trying to force-feed readers lib-left propaganda masquerading in the name of “quality journalism”. MORE
Well at Least They Got Media Man right, Notice He Fly’s Strong and Erect All while Poking His Ass Out !
Their news is about as informative and useful as ads from the Ad Council.
I can see how corporate media/news can become the buggy whip of the 21st century. Sure, they’ll be using the courts and fancy sleight-of-hand to preserve themselves, but you can’t change peoples’ minds once they understand your product is untrustworthy and harmful.
Air America, Part Dieux
Why not? After all, communist countries get away with this kinda shit. S/off
Not a fundamentally sound plan to start out on the bottom of the bird cage…
Umm, doesn’t the guy who controls Facebook own the Washington Post?
New Media Alliance = NMA, normally known by its initials and pronounced the same as ‘en-em-a’ and has the same output as an enema.
And the guy who has fubared the Richmond Times Dispatch is warren Buffett. We were Subscribers since 1994 and we have dispatched them.
Sounds reasonable, given that Congress exempts its members from anti-trust laws. Why should their propaganda arm not also be exempt?
Media? I’ve started calling them Mudia.
WHOdaPHUCK reads google and yahoo news for facts? YGBSM! They are the left.
Jeff Bezos of amazon owns the post.