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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by akdor1154 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:50AM (#24006624)
> And if you can't, we'll then I guess you don't matter that much.

This is not true for the media. A functioning, critical, and trustworthy media is very important to society.

Profit ≈ importance is just flat out wrong in general.

(Not saying I agree with this govt intervention)

Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by TomMarius on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:37AM (#24007102)
I hear the media say this all around the world all the time, and they of course always mean themselves... But is it true? There are many and many independent reporters with their blogs and twitters (do we call that media?), independent news sites (that probably is media) that are not with the mainstream media on these legal requirements, and actually in my country the mainstream media is so corrupt a half of the population simply does not care about them and get their news from other sources, like blogs and twitter.
Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by waheoo on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:04AM (#24006952)
I'm not sure you understand what media is in this country. Its all garbage.

Even the "fair and unbiased" govt funded ABC is a total toothless joke.

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HtV-2X4BjQI

Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by ardy42 on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:14AM (#24008758)
> I'm not sure you understand what media is in this country. Its all garbage.

> Even the "fair and unbiased" govt funded ABC is a total toothless joke.

> https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HtV-2X4BjQI

I don't know much about the Australian media, but I do know a citation to a random youtube comedian does not convincingly support such a statement.

Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by waheoo on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:01PM (#24016277)
Thats fair, and I would question anyone getting all their news from the Daily show or last week tonight. Its incredibly biased.

Australia's problem is that our news orgs are corrupt to the core, every journo is afraid to go against Murdoch in any way shape or form their careers are ended if they do.

So here we are, with this "comedian," doing a better reporting job than pretty much every single outlet in the country. With very few exceptions.

Climate change protests https://youtube.com/watch?v=HTAzb7UbJ6M

Darling river fuck up https://youtube.com/watch?v=gNbSazIqVYA

Fatty mc fuck face https://youtu.be/WmJ7CSRRCDM

Misinformed journalism https://youtube.com/watch?v=3tTqyZQsG5A