The old news business model is broken: making Google and Facebook pay won’t save journalism

Fri, 5 Feb 2021 05:25:47 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/the-old-news-business-model-is-broken-making-google-and-facebook-pay-wont-save-journalism-150357>

"The federal government is talking tough about making Google and
Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or featuring,
these publishers’ content."

[...]

"But the code is unlikely to do much to fix the crisis faced by
journalism in the internet age. It isn’t even a band-aid on the problem.

The traditional commercial news business model is broken beyond repair.
If the government wants to save the social benefit of public-interest
journalism, it must look elsewhere."

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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