Local News Is Dead. We Found the Corporations Who Killed It and Made Billions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Google and Facebook killed the news. 2.5 newspapers closed each week on average in 2023. And 500 journalists were laid off in January alone. It's because the tech giants are siphoning billions of dollars in ad revenue. Now the DOJ is finally taking them on.
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It is not just big tech, the consolidation of retail is a big part of this. You no longer have your local hardware or grocery store advertising, you have other large oligopolies who are just as happy dealing with Google/Meta instead of local publishers.
We used to have a lot of local and regional stores. Now it's pretty much Walmart or Target.
ive been saying for a while that online ads should be required to provide space for local ads. its the only way i will allow cookies, so that they know to show me correct local ads. small businesses are forced to use things like intstagram and tik tok which are horrible places.
as somone who helped run a non profit it was hard to beat the ad deals google provided us.
It's the consolidation of greed.
@@DarqJestorand they’re breeding so they can make it worse!
All the hardware stores are now either ace or “name here by ACE” locally jts sad
If the people want Chinese monopolies banned here, when USA monopolies are larger, then it is time to take on corporate anti competitive power together.
To fight one unaccountable monopoly, use a different unaccountable monopoly
Lina Khan has to stay in her position in a Harris/Walz administration.
Uncanny valley: Now conspiracy - are you the chinese?
that's just it; the people do not want chinese monopolies banned here
Dxracer
I gave up on Facebook completely some months ago: best decision I've made.
They accused me of sharing CP without evidence. I demanded an apology but nothing...so yeah, I left those liars!
What what were you doing @@RealHomeRecording
You're an inspiration. I'm trying to do that too. I don't have Tiktok and tell myself to NOT download the app. Instagram is also becoming unhealthy. Facebook most of all amplifies all the hatred and rumors and fake news and toxicity that u can find on the internet (apart from Twitter)
I gave up years ago, back in the 2010s
@@kiuk_kiks Same I left around 2013
Monopolies ruin everything they touch. It doesn't matter what industry they operate in.
netflix ruined vhs and big auto ruined horse and buggy
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Monopolistic is corrupting
Once you dominate a market enough, it's almost impossible for a new competitor to enter and survive. Hell, even if a new competitor becomes a threat there are so many avenues for an established player to eliminate the threat, without competing fairly. You can acquire them or use lawfare to destroy them (perhaps you have a patent on a valuable feature of the competitors product for example).
@SgtJoeSmith big auto ruined society don't at me.
@@SgtJoeSmith yeah but *horse whips still work* when belligerent public servants only serve themselves.
It always seems so strange to me to see professional news profiles having to censor words because of the youtube algorithm
sign of the times
What did they censor?
America is pregnant with and currently ruined by monopolies. You wonder about the cost of living ? The many monopolies and near monopolies in America have served to give these crushing monopolies the green light to gouge you everyday and to steal your hard earned money. Our worthless, bought off and paid for Congress, on both sides , have done nothing to prevent, stop or prevent monopolies, nothing to lessen the impact of monopolies, nothing to protect Americans from the ongoing price fixing by monopolies. Write, protest , do something to individually fight all monopolies in America. Demand your Congress person to act now to design House Bills to stop monopoly creation in America forever ???
Vote Blue. Lina Khan will do the rest.
@@pranavidblue and red on the same team
Give an example of a monopoly. Google, Microsoft, Meta? They're competitors to each other.
@@dannydaw59Did you watch the video? Google and Meta not competing against each other for advertising is what led to most of what’s covered in the video. If you want examples of monopolies, look at ISPs, with often only one fast service provided in a region. Luxottica has most companies for eyeglasses. PepsiCo has many of the chips and sodas. Walmart controls 72% of warehouse clubs and super centers. Three companies offer 95% of credit cards. A monopoly doesn’t mean there is only one company that does one thing. A monopoly “is a market structure with a single seller or producer that assumes a dominant position in an industry or a sector.” While in these examples there are a few more, issues arise when they cooperate with one another and divide the country in order to not compete and maximize profits. Sure, often we do not fit the perfect definition of a monopoly, and we’d likely have legal grounds to fight on if that were the case. However, if a few companies consolidate by buying out other companies, then cooperate together to not compete, how is the situation significantly different than if there were just one company? Perhaps you said what you did for semantic reasons, but it’s hard to disagree that there isn’t an issue with consolidation and corporate power in the US.
@@dannydaw59Amazon is another clear example of
Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.
If your purpose is to make money, then your purpose is corrupt.
@@JosedeJezeus I mean not really
@@JosedeJezeus come be my employee. i need employees who dont care about making money
like unions? and employees?
@@JosedeJezeus this isn’t true but the initial comment is.
The fact that they're large enough to do this crap in the first place is the problem.
Stop trying to legislate away the damage they can do, antitrust the crap out of these guys so they can't do it in the first place...
Don’t forget about Sinclair Broadcasting Group who made the now infamous “this is dangerous for our democracy” local news compilation possible by owning all of the network affiliates.
@00:13 this guy looks fammilar.
Can you put names and titles in the videos for speakers please?
I thought the same thing! Good suggestion
Chuck Todd - NBC News
It's funny, in the first split second, I thought he was Tom Mulcair (former leader of Canada's NDP)
@@thirdcoast6513 I think this das a bought video. I don't think the channel put any effort in it, or even researched the topic.
Me too hahaha! Your Canadian is showing!
The Google Meta collab should be target of anti-trust lawsuits, if the U.S. would actually start prosecuting those again.
Local news organizations in the U.S. are DEAD and they’re NOT coming back. I started journalism school in 1976 and hung on in the profession until 2013. Even during the good times, newspapers barely provided reporters, photojournalists, and editors a livable wage. That said, plenty of people wanted to serve their communities. But now there’s no where to go. The paper I spent most of my career with was once one of the top ten city employers. Today, there are so few employees that they don’t even have an office. There is no urgency to save newspapers in this country because the populace is fundamentally uninformed and most don’t care.
They want to know when Taylor Swift has a snot ball in her nose though.
In my opinion I don't think there is really a place for traditional news or newspapers. I am 20 and my main source information about what's happening in my community are small time content creators. What service does a journalist provide that a random person with camera and a laptop cannot? I want your perspective because I just don't see the value.
@@rusticfightr The "journalists" that you probably watch are just commentators on the investigations done by actual journalists.
@@rusticfightryeah I'm 41 and in the same boat as you .. I havent read a news paper since college .. I get my news online
It has been happening for yrs. Bush deregulated the main media. I remember the guy who had a generator during Katrina and kept on with a voice on the radio. Couldn't get a licence thou. 😮
Clinton, actually. But right on, otherwise.
Deregulation of media (and other industries) started with Reagan. He also made infomercials possible.
@@RBzee112 That I couldn’t speak to. I just know the Telecomm act was in 1996
@@jodywho6696 Our economy is a game,like football. Deregulating our economy is like deregulating football. Imagine eliminating the refs and rules in football? It would be full of CHEATING.
Shutting the lights off and restructuring everything NEEDS to take place. Make the nation, by the people for the people again
clearly trump wont do it.
@@ArcturusAlpha it doesn’t matter “who” it’ll happen in time. The malcontents in the society being made forward will be only eager to light things on fire. People have to deal with these decisions and there’s so much some can handle
I’m currently traveling in Nepal and it’s amazing to see a country who’s economy (as far as average business size is concerned) likely looks very similar to how the US economy looked 75-100 years ago.
Every building and every house has a shop it’s store on it’s first floor so basically everyone is their own business owner rather than working for someone else.
Too bad about the flag tho
@@quartzofcourseyes the shape is odd (to us) but what's wrong with them symbolising bravery (red) and peace (blue border) ?
I thought businesses were bad. Landlords are businesses and you buffoons hate them hahahaha. Can't make up your uninformed minds huh?
You forgot this part:
Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings by the government; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment by the government; arbitrary detention; serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media, including ...
Whooooops!
See, communism can't be all bad 😜
Nepal is ruled by various Communist parties and has been for some time. From Maoist to Marxist to Socialist.
We also defunded education at the same time. Google runs all the schools as well. This should be scary.
How does Google run all the schools?
@@gussampson5029Chromebooks
Schools use a lot of cloud apps that are Google based
@@gussampson5029i’m really not sure but i’m assuming they’re partners so schools can use chromebooks? or google is the preferred search engine
….with the help of the us government and intelligence agencies.
no you mean rich conservative donors
the goverment is THE ONLY ONE that can change this, it's all just because the goverment allows it. The Goverment hold the ultimate power, but people need to vote and get loud to make use of that power for the benefit of its citizens, without speaking out, nothing will happen. No twitter or youtube comment matters like AT ALL. Use the fact we live in a democracy
@drblais5193 funnily (maybe not) enough, those same doners have been funding am radio and podcast talking heads so he believes conspiracies like that and not see the obvious in front of him
@@papayayaya5049 am radio is all fascist trash now
@@drblais5193 you mean rich donors. they have no party allegiance. this channel would do well to call out politicians on both sides
When we let the oligarchs horde the newspaper business years ago, I watched all our local papers disappear.
The problem isn't changing business models but enabled monopolies.
Facts
Two things can be true
just another idea: what if journalism wasn't ad-based?
You mean like paid subscriptions how people did it back in the day? It worked but there was still classified ads and other kinds of ads to subsidized the cost of printing the newspapers and distributing them
Ultimately, high-quality journalism would be liberated from capitalist motives at that point in time.
That has only ever existed in the form of government owned radio and television stations, and PBS in the US. Everything else relies to some degree on ads and always has. Ads aren't the problem: monopolies are. This same thing is happening all over the world for the exact same reason.
That's exactly what editors and publishers of newspapers envisioned starting in the early '90's. It has not gone well.
Here's the thing I don't understand - do publishers actually believe they're entitled to revenue every time a LINK (which does not show the article) is showed? They still have to click on your site to read the article... This is pretty stupid. Also, publishers will immediately get bots to post their links everywhere.
First ban people monopolizing advertising then regulate advertising. The phishing hack disinformation ads at the bottom of major news websites could be a good start when we get there. Hopefully!
More eye-opening reporting. Excellent. Thank you.
I go out of my way to buy copies of my local newspaper whenever I can. I’m doing what I can to keep it afloat.
Don't mean to hurt your feelings but the per-copy and subscription prices pay for your specific copy's paper, ink, and trucking costs only. The prices aren't high enough to cover the newsroom costs.
To be fair the "News" was slow to embrace streaming video and podcast.
There are plenty af small news teams on youtube that makes 4-20 min videos with news. Others made there news available in audio format, which I like listening to doing my commute.
yeah but youtube is becoming a crap service that is trying to force us all to pay $15 a month for premium. without it you get more crap content. none of the ad revenue makes this better. personally i support a couple local journalists through their patreon.
They were slow to embrace ANY form of digital distribution, including basic text. It was all just kiddie crap that would vanish, while their 1950s technology would go on into the 25th century!
I don't know about other cities, but my local newspaper put itself out of business. I often contacted the editor over the years as newsworthy stories came up. Issues like police involved shootings, corrupt politicians, and even the DUI arrest of a local TV personality were all swept under the rug. Corrupt and killer cops were protected because the local newspaper refused to run "negative stories" and they had unwritten agreements with the local TV station not to run certain types of stories. A local car lot that was ripping people off got a pass from the paper because they ran weekly full page ads. All of this started to come to light only after social media came along. When police shootings were uploaded to TH-cam, it was harder for the newspaper to explain the lack of reporting on it. I'm glad the old broken systems are dying out. It sucks that fake news is actually a concern, but it's so much better than no news at all.
Exactly. So many people only look at one side of the story. Yes, corporations are greedy and selfish. But they're not the only ones. If these institutions hadn't lost so much trust, they wouldn't be facing competition. The mainstream media is dying out because no one can trust their "news" and everyone knows it. So people would rather wade through the fake news to try to find the real news.
"People will always read the newspaper". A famous quote the head of the classified advertising department of the largest newspaper company in the country about 20 years ago, after I presented a plan to the board to use 75% of their classified ad budget to buy internet backbone, so they could charge a fee to everyone to support journalism and the newsrooms. Two days after that meeting, they paid out my contract and fired me. Now I don't know how to fix it. But I gave them a chance.
This is 2004? Even then, it is obvious that the internet is the future.
Alright. Ill delete my google accounts and gmail accounts and also delete my facebook accounts. that sounds so amazing. They are just a yoke on my back
One thing I may have missed here is that the digital advertisements can be more focused on the target market, and demonstrable results from said ad spending.
My paper, a Top 10 American publisher, went to zipcode based tab insert distribution. It worked, for a while.
Is hyper local media important? Absolutely! Is print media still the answer? Doesn't look like it is any more.
yeah we dont need print media but we do need real journalism for the people. we need journalists following the money especially local money. its easy to be distracted by dumb stuff like abortion rights etc.
@@ArcturusAlphaI'm a journalist volunteer for my local area. I fund it with my business.
The big problem? WordPress bots!
Do you know though that the digital ads are shown to the right people? Or even real people? I mean there are loads of bot accounts and scams that the companies will do nothing about. Litterally thousands of user reports or even print media warning about a certain scam does nothing.
Google and Meta make huge promises, but are they for real? Has anyone ever done research on the actual reach of digital ads?
I get a huge amount of ads for companies whose websites I have regularly visited. Seems kind of pointless to show me these ads, since I've already made a purchase. I've understood this was "the early stages of digital marketing", but seems to be still going strong in 2024.
I fairly recently went through what Facebook thinks I'm interested in, and the results were roughly 25/25/25/25. Things I've never heard of and don't know what they are / things I actually hate / things I'm indifferent about / things I'm genuinely interested in.
They claim to know people, but really they don't. Also a whole lot of ads are targeted based on gender and other stereotypes, and just age group. These might be fine for people who neatly fit the stereotypes, but not for anyone else, who might actually be interested to buy said thing.
Also ads are nowadays just promoting scams and harmful products so often, that I'm not the only one who suspects especially all TH-cam image ads in the feed are likely scams.
The video ads that TH-cam is showing me tend to be very generalized, kind of what you'd see on TV. Except the ones for shops that I've already frequently visited.
All this being said, I've tried to teach the Meta algorithm by liking and reacting to ads from places I really want to see ads from, and blocking almost everything else. It's working fairly well, so yes, targeted ads have their place, but it requires active input from users to make them truly targeted.
STORY IDEA: The event from the late 1950's of Organized Crime Mob Bosses meeting, in upstate NY, exposed this type of crime to the point where J. Edgar was forced to officially recognize it as an evil force in the US - why did J.E recognize it then, because the 'Mob' had comprising photos of him practicing his alternative3 life style that kept him quiet. His collection of 'dirt' on political figures is one of the reasons he was able to evade Retirement. This theme used to be discussed by leading print journalists of the time. I believe this particular Model of management continues to this day and has been adopted by the other senior Alphabet Agency officials: CIA, DOJ, FBI, NSA, etc. - AKA the "Deep State. "Who better to gather compromising material on people of power & influence. Pull that thread and see where it leads . . if you can/ dare!
Tale as old as time. Kompromat.
Source: My tulpa told me
@@papayayaya5049 What is this 2 cents gaslighting?
@@pajeetsingh sorry, my tulpa says I shouldn't argue on the internet
Why aren't the other people in the video identified?
When a company becomes large enough the difference between a business and a government becomes ever smaller. Which is especially scary when this "company" has a monopoly on information and has little to no oversight. When you have a monopoly on information you also a monopoly on propaganda.
Google & Facebook, even Twitter... These BULLSH!T Tech-Heads Deserve To Lose BIG-TIME?!
9:55 Dont blame the player.. Blame the game! The US political system is designed such that it can be influenced by special interest groups.
I can bet the advertising in the local newspaper was more effective than online advertising besides not having any creepy tracking.
Tell news companies agencies large publishers etc (not small local newspapers). To stop making journalists intern for almost free, to stop making alot of people freelancers or part timers, stop dangling carrots infront of journalists with the promise that one day very very far into the future a journalists can have a steady stable paycheck and career
Until this happens I have zero sympathy for them and I hope tech giants keep lobbying them to zero.
Sorry not sorry😂
I began leaning towards social media news feeds because my local and state news orgs maintained a heavy preference to one-sided politics and religion. It's a no-win situation.
Lauding Australias media bargining code is not actually good as they only gave money to big old school news monopolies and not the small independent journalists.
Watchdogs now sounds like a big joke we all know about. 2020 opened our eyes, and govt is making sure to close certain doors while the populous is lost far far gone and lost
Content is king. It’s also the currency that helps fuel the “attention economy”. This is one key reason there’s a tug of war for the ad revenue sector. Newspapers offer news (aka content) and social platforms offer content as well. Both have yet to create their own profitable streams for content itself and thus rely on advertisement to stay operating.
Because ad revenue is a subsidy for content availability and accessibility, newspapers are at the mercy of local support. On the other hand, big tech leans heavily on global engagement and platforms with amenities. After all, many people want to read, watch, listen, post, shop etc in one place. Most of which isn’t possible via newspapers.
With this, companies and marketing firms are opting to go where the most eyeballs are and ad dollars stretch the farthest. This means they have to see value in going local both in print and digitally in order for newspapers to stand a chance. It’s not impossible; but newspapers MUST innovate and not just rely on legislation and royalties for content use.
There needs to be an additional value-add offered by newspapers beyond their historical relevance in the news sector. Not because big tech and monopolies are a justified pairing. It’s because times have changed and no amount of legislation is going to supersede the value most readers find getting their news and social engagement all in one place.
Disgusting. The DOJ needs to sue Meta and Google. Especially TH-cam
Meta and Google will just lobby for the DOJ to do nothing
... and Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Kroger, etc. The consolidation of retail is just as big a part of this. Advertisers are parts of large oligopolies, not your local "independent" grocery or hardware store as even they are associated with these large chains.
Lol that's cute.... the DOJ
Sue for what on YT?
russiagate killed digital media when they black listed RT and the left
We need Lina Khan in there!
There is only one way to stop this and that is go after one thing these company care about and that their stock and drive them down.
Stock market benefits from these companies uniting and driving prices up and the only effective counter measure is show just how much control people have.
This isnt about journalism. Its about small business ownera not being able to exploit people as much as corporations. The problem with actual independent journalism is that people dont read much
its crazy.. we knew this would happen.. its here now.. those tech giants are getting away with so much...
Well many of the small companies that use to advertise in local papers have also been killed of by shopping over the internet. (Amazon)
Something you will not hear in the news. I am forty years old. I am also what I refer to as rung 0 on the job ladder. I am permanently locked out of getting a job. The job market has operated on a system of you have to bring a skill to the table to get a job. Or know someone who the employers will listen to who will vouch for you. Not even those jobs which are known for hiring anyone will hire me. This needs to stop. All jobs need to have a requirement that they have to hire a certain number of unskilled workers or lose their business licence. For decades, entire small towns have been crippled by a single plant shutting down. Because, that plant was the only business hiring workers in mass. However, those being hired at those plants are rung 1 on the ladder. This is discrimination where America will only hire certain people who have "earned" their job. Some being hired without having earned their place. Discrimination is part of human nature. It needs to be strictly suppressed by force.
Local newspaper here just shut down too. After over 100 years now we don't have a locally printed paper.
I don't see why ANYBODY should be able to share content they did not create on social media. Please tell me why, I may be wrong...
....aaaaand then you vote Trump back in and he guts the DoJ and loads the courts.
I hope it works. Google is definitely a destructive monopoly
this video is wrong on a few fronts big tech didn't ruin the news the news did that also about the canada situation it wasn't about a fair share it was a horrible easily abused law
They didn’t kill anything that’s how the world works things become obsolete
What future can we have under there mostert us organizations that just digest people
Seems like a good move for Canada to let FB keep not having news...
Why can the video play but comments won't load for me?
1:57 Okay, hold on here buck-o. First off, classifieds were the bread and butter of newspapers who were making bank until Craigslist came along. At the time, your industry was charging absurd amounts of money for puny amounts of text on a page. Craigslist ate your lunch. Then your industry decided to give content online away for free. What did you think was going to happen? All you had to do was charge a reasonable amount for a subscription, a reasonable amount for classifieds, and not publish content directly online (i.e. content is inaccessible to Google) and you'd still be in business today! People want local news stories without 32 different belly fat and foot fungus ads getting in the way.
Agreed regarding craiglist! But as far as subscription cost, people don't even want to pay $1 per month where I live.
Yes. I was an executive in the Ad Revenue Divisions of a major newspaper chain at the time, and you are one of the few who understands what actually happened. In retrospect, the death of newspapers was a suicide more than a homicide. For the record, Craig Newmark didn't eat newspaper's lunch, he threw it on the floor. He charged $0 for most of the advertising that the newspapers had been gouging for.
The ending of the video spells the whole game out. Corporations only get this big if you LET them. The laws are only as strong as the folks who enforce them. Educate yourselves on topics like these, figure out where your representatives stand, and vote accordingly.
Edited to make dang sure I made myself clear that we the people are responsible, and that starts with arming ourselves with knowledge, which is what videos like this one are for (though should not be consumed as the only source).
@@travisbiko8990 I will entertain this kind of comment once per thread, and only for the purpose of enlightenment for others; please do your own god dang research. While I personally will vote for Kamala and Walz for Pres/VP, respectively, people and policies are more than just buzzwords, its why videos like this exist. As another comment pointed out, topics like these have far reaching consequences that sometimes don't get picked up or are deliberately ignored by some parties, even ones you may agree with initially.
The best weapon we have against situations like we're in right now is vigilance and research, there's a reason why authoritarians target educational systems. Google and Facebook may be hurting those systems, but they are not dead. Use places like news reports (checking from multiple angles), peer-review, study summaries from reputable sources, libraries tend to be filled with folks who are happy to help with stuff like this. It doesn't have to be all the time or excessively often, just on regular intervals that after a while will help form healthy informational diets.
So, on that front, I ask you: would you rather vote for someone who's party actively bans information from topics as crucial as history of your own country, or someone who very clearly has no vested interest in doing such a thing? I can tell you who I think is who from my research, I can point you to evidence I can gather, but only you can draw your own conclusion.
Just found this channel and I really enjoyed your content
We need some HUGE trust breaking.
i wondered why facebook removed its news tab
Supporting this channel!
the irony is more perfect union published this on google instead of local newspapers.
Yeah how many times do you pick up the local news paper?
Lol I thought so
@@croissantsavant maybe thats why they are all closing. no one buys the paper anymore. not cause of google corporate greed. thanks for proving my point.
@@SgtJoeSmith woosh…
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@@SgtJoeSmith 🙂
VOTE JEW NO MATTER WHO
Good for you. F*** Google and meta
Workers of the world, unite!
interesting video once again
Thank you😊
I pay for (digital, online) subscriptions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Economist. Do other people just use Google News or Facebook?
When my parents lived in New York City in the 1950s, the city had something like 10 newspapers. By the time I was in high school, NYC was down to the NYT, The New York Post, The New York Daily News and The Wall Street Journal. So, papers have been dying throughout my life, long before Sergey Brin met Larry Page.
This channel makes some good content, but not this time. The link tax was a horrible idea that hurt the very people it was claiming to protect.
"Between Google and Meta announcing their intention to exit news, we now expect a catastrophic 60 percent reduction in traffic,” ZoomerMedia’s chief operating officer Omri Tintpulver wrote to the prime minister’s office and heritage officials. “Jobs are going to be lost. Soon. Entire divisions may also be lost.”
When Australia passed a link tax in early 2021, Google and Meta eventually paid off the major media conglomerates to continue operating as usual. But small outlets weren’t able to shoulder-in at the link tax trough like their larger competitors, leading to the ongoing hyper-consolidation of the Australian news industry.
Competition is NOT the path to human progress: COOPERATION is.
Capitapism slows the pace of human progress, because it encourages SECRET KEEPING.
That's completely wrong. Capitalism and competition drive progress and inspire people to do better. However, Capitalism in the US has been badly corrupted.
What do you think real capitalism is? Without monopolies IT IS cooperation.
@@azzv.kuskatan Сapitalism is evil jewwdaism, and communism is too.
@@sharkboy6952 Read. A. Book.📕 Cooperation is the only way we survive, and Capitalism has no future on this Earth. Those who cling to it will be swallowed by the void before their time.
@@azzv.kuskatan capitalism ends in consolidation. It needs heavy regulation to not do that.
Local newspapers are incredibly biased.
and google and meta aren't? what exactly are you trying to say here. We need smaller operations in every single industry.
We need to break up all big corporations that are actively reducing choice quality and cost for consumers across the board.
I like how you try to put words in my mouth.
I'm confused by this story. How can you post a news article on social media without it being an obvious and straightforward copyright issue? What's this have to do with companies not spending money on print ads? I literally don't know anyone under 60 that still even glances at physical print media so why would advertisers spend much money there?
They aren't hosting the articles themselves, they're hosting links to the articles on the official websites of those papers. The video honestly does a disservice here, because if they accurately described what the law does it would be obvious that this law was at very best ill-conceived and poorly-implemented.
@@drosberg3680 that somehow makes less sense to me. Wouldn’t the news websites want traffic to their sites from social media links?
it's started with google, we practically have no alternative search engine that actually searches the net for your keywords.
You haven't considered the current Supreme Court and it's cozy relationship with big business and the money that is given to them by the back door.
I am still sad that so many buggy whip companies went out of business
damn big electric ran my candle business out of business!
damn big streaming services ran my dvd/vhs business out of business!
damn big computer companies ran my typewriter business out of business!
@@HonestVirtue315 netflix killed blockbuster after blockbuster declined to buy netflix
@@HonestVirtue315 yahoo once had a chance to buy google cheap in googles early days
Just yesterday i was explaining that to my friends.
I really like the video lenght of "12:14", it's perfect ;))🐦👍
Ironic we are all watching this on a Google owned platform
Our democracy has been attacked in ways that are hard to tackle back on when families can’t afford food at night, or events with out febts
they keep talking about Google like its a living breathing person! i want to know who is pulling the strings at google and hold them accountable for all this corruption!!!
Why the good chunk of us online uses Adblockers, even the FBI suggests to us to use it for our own safety.
Ads should only be shown to people within certain context. Like while shopping. Introducing new products or other context provided specific instances where it isnt intrusive and obtuse.
Damn, I live 10 minutes from Greer, SC and have never heard of that local paper before 🤔
to be fair i think we all did. ive never bought a newspaper but as ive gotten older i wish i had supported my local newspaper. many of us just didnt realize having access to the internet would ruin journalism, just that i would shift to digital form. we are not entirely to blame for sure. but we all contributed to its demise. whether these monopolies intended it or not having so many ads on news sites also killed the desire to go to them.
8:32 I find it strange that someone is claiming Facebook censored government, NGOs and other websites. It is just not technologically possible to do that.
??? How is it not technologically possible to flag undesirable posts?
Before Canada, this same problem happened in Australia.
The control of information is a key step in controlling any population. Everyone's electronic data is a valuable resource/revenue for the tech corporations. They use this revenue to gain more and more control and power. It doesn't matter who is in political control as they play both sides of the political isle. The critical times that we live in will only go from bad to worse until things climax when good government steps in to remove those in opposition to it, even big tech - Daniel 2:44
It was a little odd when I was in CA because it back ally still worked you just had to click from the pages timeline.
Fortunately here in Chicago the Sun Times is now part of the local NPR station. We get a whole lot of local news, government cultural and the rest. The journalists are all local as well, makes for a good morning read with my coffee.
I'm outside of the US, and funny how we're affected by these issues even when we're not subjected to your policies.
I hope in the near future more countries regulate big tech and not straight up ban them like China
Does anyone else think Lee Harper looks and sounds like Ben Shapiro? This sort of goes into that topic of advanced facial artist theory. Where it was discovered that there are only a finite number of facial models. With just variations on those base models. I pick up on these things as a failed artist.
He definitely sounds just like Ben Shapiro... It's kind of a whiny, twitchy voice and even similar body language.
My father was in the newspaper business for 40 years. This started happening in the mid 80s before the Internet and the newpaper business slept on it for decades. First radio, then TV, then corporate consolidation. Papers had multiple, many, many opportunities in the early Internet days to respond and they punted the CEOs lined their pockets took the buyouts and DID NOT CARE. Its gonna take a thr remaining giants to team up force search to pay and buy something like NextDoor and fight.
Evil doesn't have a leg to stand on without stupid people buying in. People are obviously hungry for that type of content, or you wouldn't be complaining about it. Whats stopping everyone in this video from detaching from those they know are bad actors and doing it themselves?
How many young gen X and younger consume ads though local papers? How many hours of ad consumption exist on google and meta based platforms?? We need to look at our civil demands as much as we look at how they're manipulated at the top. Remove the demand, remove the opportunity for the elite to oppress. Target marketing isn't freedom.
Honestly what's happening to newspapers is so so sad. In another lifetime, if our north american governments actually helped people pass legislation proactively with technology, I probably would have become a journalist. But now, it just doesn't seem viable anymore.
Even Sports Illustrated went under. If hot girls in bikinis aren't even profitable something is wrong. It is terrifying how much power facebook and google have over the curation and dictation of what information we are allowed to see and who is allowed to have a voice.
Local news is so important for holding small city, town, and community governments and businesses responsible when they do unethical things. As well as inform local citizens about important legislation, crime, and community building opportunities for their area. I'm so proud of our never-seems-to-do-anything canadian government for FINALLY doing something progressive and meaningful.
Be careful. “You know who “ will delete this video!
News should be free to stream on a different platform it's the news we're supposed to be informed people are forgetting that's what it's for
Fuck national news and meta. News should be decentralized