News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financial Times : Big Tech versus journalism: publishers watch Australia fight with bated breath Stephen Scheeler / Sydney Morning Herald : As a former Facebook chief, here's my verdict: It's a shameless demonstration of corporate might Robert Clark / Light Reading : Facebook cuts off Australia news over new rules Jack Snape / ABC : Facebook can't be trusted for reliable news, says government, as Mark Zuckerberg speaks to the Treasurer Bloomberg : Facebook Blocks News in Australia in Warning for the World Wall Street Journal : Google to Pay News Corp for Access to Its Publications' Content Kate Kaye / Digiday : 'I'm afraid of repercussions': Publishing industry members question Google's motives in paying off News Corp Soumyarendra Barik / MediaNama : In Australia, Facebook and Google choose diverging paths over paying news publishers Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Very good on the hypocrisy of Australian politicians from @benthompson https://stratechery.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : What angers me most is that *journalism* organizations had *no* shame and *no* transparency about their conflict of interest, cashing in their political capital to buy political favor and conspiracy to blackmail the tech companies. Journalism *never* reported its conflict. Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : Google just announced a deal with News Corp. I hate this. It means that media blackmail works. It sets a terrible precedent for the net. It gives Google yet more power over news. It is a win for the devil, Murdoch. I really hate that. Paladaddy / @defspaladin : This is so dangerous, not only does this incite retaliation but it also invites other big behemoth companies to do the same leaving Australia in a dark spot for news, international and national. https://twitter.com/... Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : That shuffling sound you hear? Maybe it is publishers around 🌍 hiring lobbyists:"Google's rush to pay up in Australia shows how regulation in a relatively small country — or just the threat of it — can sharply alter the behavior of a global tech behemoth" https://www.nytimes.com/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : Bet Google will hold this up as evidence Australia doesn't need a new law forcing it to share revenues with publishers. https://newscorp.com/... Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw : Let's unionize and try this with @jack https://twitter.com/... Julia Reda / @senficon : Australia (competition approach, not #copyright), France (competition & copyright) & Germany (neither copyright nor competition) all had the same outcome for Google & big publishers. Great, can we stop wrecking the Internet for everyone else, now? https://newscorp.com/... #linktax Chris Conlon / @conlon_chris : No doubt Rupert Murdoch can thank his friends in the Australian government for all of their help on this one. https://twitter.com/... Peter A. Shulman / @pashulman : Imagine if Google would shared ad revenue and infrastructure with local, public interest non-profit news instead of a corrosive right wing global behemoth. https://twitter.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : In the end, Google & Facebook have a big bucket of baksheesh that will go to old proprietors and their shareholders (not journalists; don't fool yourselves), keeping them around a little longer and keeping upstart competitors out of the market. See also Mediagazer