Newspapers seek Google payments

by itslefty | March 26, 2009 at 05:11 pm
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The Media Industry just like the Banking Industry have eaten themselves up, the greedy bastards, to put the term politely, For years they have been feathering their own nests, its the "I'm alright jack syndrome".

The banks just recently have been crying at the steps of power asking for handouts (benefits payments) and now its the turn of the crappy media to do the same.

The media themselves can be blamed for the lack lustre reporting of important news stories over the past 40 years, the media have helped downgrade the working class to the status of scum. The working class are put down and ridiculed with such expressions as "White Van Man" "Knock off Nigel" and the shame of it is that the working class are laughing at themselves without really understanding that the insults are aimed directly at them or their nearest and dearest.

Newspapers seek Google payments

By Ben Fenton

Published: March 26 2009 02:00

The bodies representing the local and national newspaper industry have appealed to the government to make Google and other aggregators of news material pay for using it.

In a letter to Andy Burnham, the culture secretary, the Society of Editors and the Newspaper Society said "ministers could look urgently for effective ways in which Google and others could be prevented from profiting from third-party content without recompense to or consent from those who generated the material".

Thousands of jobs have been lost in the industry in recent months and scores of titles sold. Ben Fenton

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itslefty

I think the newspapers have a cheek even asking google for money, I'm all for free speech but If I owned google anybody that asked me for money to display their content would be scrubbed from my listings.

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Rob Walker

You should maybe write that in the original post, as right now it's just the highlighted information.

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itslefty

Thanks for the advice, I should have known better. :o(

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