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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by nitwit005 on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:02PM (#14588955)
The newspapers were already aggregators in the first place. They bought stories off wire feeds, bought editorials, paid for the comics, and sprinkled in their own content.

The Associated Press quite upset the news industry by directly posting content online, because they were afraid people would skip them and get the stories directly.

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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by matt4077 on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:13PM (#14590053)
The newspapers own AP. They share news via AP. AP was/is a scheme to reduce the costs of news gathering by, for example, having the LA Times contribute information on events in LA that the NYTimes can use, and vice versa.
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:31AM (#14592404)
One argument is that cheaper media technologies require expanding the bounds of the publishing entity. Whether that means ISPs, major aggregators, Amazon / Apple / Google, a public broadcasting model, or something else, I'm not sure.

But it's going to be large.

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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by chris_wot on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#14589151)
Yeah, they paid for it.
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