Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I am not sure if this one is on FB or the idiots who are running Australia. Or a combination of the two. I expect Sydney Watson will vlog on this.
Why because the Aussie ( and UK) papers break the stories on the US puppet show first? Or print a story the US drive by media wont touch?
DJH-
Both is good.
They’ve been trying to find a way to charge for sharing links to news stories for years. That lets you cancel anyone who points out errors in reporting.
The little that I’ve researched, this could be great. Yes, they want to charge Facebook, financially, for making money off of other people writing stories in other publications. I am all for whatever regulations need to be placed on Facebook so that it goes down in a ball of flames, or so that a thousand other alternative crop up. It would be great if a national version of Facebook cropped up in every country.
The principle is wrong.
Or are you going to pay every time you say, in conversation, “hey, I read a story in the New York Times”?
Foxfire, the problem, as I understand it, is that Facebook sells ads and makes money on those links to those stories / sources but the sources do not make money on them. The court ruling said that wasn’t legal.
So, John, flip it around– did the folks the news interviewed to make their story get paid?
They sell ads and make money, but their source didn’t.
So what. Every news outlet sells ads and makes money. That’s how they survive. Sometimes they pay their source and sometimes they don’t. Again- so what. But at the end of the day producing news is their reason for their existence. For Facebook, targeted advertising is the reason for their existence.
Maybe you are ok with this: Facebook pocketed Chinese cash to promote articles which downplayed what Washington has called a genocide in Xinjiang, China. But won’t put their hands in their pockets for taking news content that they did not produce.
Most “liked” news pages on Facebook:
CGTN: 114 million
China Daily: 103 million
China Xinhua News: 88 million
People’s Daily, China: 86 million
BBC News: 53 million
CCTV: 49 million
Facebook have the lion’s share of digital advertising revenue in Australia, devastating our local news industry, even as they distribute stories produced by news organisations for free. They are also ok with making advertising dollars off paedophile pages, pages for missing children, people live-steaming massacres etc…
They don’t employ journalist to go out and research articles. They don’t write independent articles which contribute to the news feed. They copy-and-paste news articles from sources they decide is worthy. They are not even impartial in their selection. And all for advertising revenue which they are making a monster from- purely. And when they are told: hey you have to start paying for the copy-and-paste strategy that’s making you a bucket-load of cash and financing your dirty agenda, they spit the dummy.
They have been planning this for months. Their own employees in Australia didn’t even have the heads up on it. A low-life organisation. The good news is that My 13 year old said to me today: who still uses Facebook, it’s for dinosaurs. Maybe Facebook time is up.
Ezabelle: my 17 year old son says something similar. FB is for “old” people (25 years plus, I guess) and for cat-crazy ladies. He and his friends do Snapchat.
Ha! I get you DJH. Anything before 2010 is probably “old” to them.