The News Industry's Demise: What You Don't Know

[@wictimovgovonca320]

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.

[@sharkboy6952]

We used to have a lot of local and regional stores. Now it's pretty much Walmart or Target.

[@ArcturusAlpha]

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.

[@DarqJestor]

It's the consolidation of greed.

[@SpecialSP]

@@DarqJestorand they’re breeding so they can make it worse!

[@reidequi3976]

All the hardware stores are now either ace or “name here by ACE” locally jts sad

[@63saruman]

I gave up on Facebook completely some months ago: best decision I've made.

[@RealHomeRecording]

They accused me of sharing CP without evidence. I demanded an apology but nothing...so yeah, I left those liars!

[@zephy01]

What what were you doing ​@@RealHomeRecording

[@SeanNessman]

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)

[@kiuk_kiks]

I gave up years ago, back in the 2010s

[@ewetn1]

​@@kiuk_kiks Same I left around 2013

[@dvdv8197]

Monopolies ruin everything they touch. It doesn't matter what industry they operate in.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

netflix ruined vhs and big auto ruined horse and buggy

[@JosedeJezeus]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Monopolistic is corrupting

[@HiddenAdept]

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).

[@veilenj]

​@SgtJoeSmith big auto ruined society don't at me.

[@sativagirl1885]

@@SgtJoeSmith yeah but *horse whips still work* when belligerent public servants only serve themselves.

[@nicklang7670]

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.

[@Demopans5990]

To fight one unaccountable monopoly, use a different unaccountable monopoly

[@ro2670]

Lina Khan has to stay in her position in a Harris/Walz administration.

[@AMPProf]

Uncanny valley: Now conspiracy - are you the chinese?

[@cl8804]

that's just it; the people do not want chinese monopolies banned here Dxracer

[@levifioravanti8021]

Lets do it! Sign me up.

[@gmenezesdea]

It always seems so strange to me to see professional news profiles having to censor words because of the youtube algorithm

[@virgogyl]

sign of the times

[@ewetn1]

What did they censor?

[@pushista9322]

And then they go to blame Russia and China for censorship

[@user-nf7ui7dz1z]

Make no mistake about it these people are Communists and the party with the people who have no morals or imaginary friend they are afraid to have to answer to in the end, they are joined at the hip. It is the Democrat Communist Party and has been for a long time now. They became mobsters and created a swamp of people on both sides that they entrap and use the dirt on them to control them. It’s much deeper than that but in a nutshell this is the truth about how we got here.

[@gmenezesdea]

@@ewetn1 I didn't mean they had censored anything, I was thinking of something related to the theme of the video which I've noticed is more and more common

[@Nicksonian]

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.

[@RealHomeRecording]

They want to know when Taylor Swift has a snot ball in her nose though.

[@rusticfightr]

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.

[@phoenix5054]

​@@rusticfightr The "journalists" that you probably watch are just commentators on the investigations done by actual journalists.

[@thecasualfly]

​@@rusticfightryeah I'm 41 and in the same boat as you .. I havent read a news paper since college .. I get my news online

[@pushista9322]

​@@rusticfightr Fundamentally, the reporters in local media are more transparent and responsible than individual bloggers. That said, it's better when we have both of these sources of information. The professional reporters know they'd better not sweep stuff under the rug and the bloggers know they'll be called out on any irresponsible claims messing with people's minds.

[@fpsFAMOUS]

"They also own the extension called HONEY 😮 Look that up, stealing people's money!" 💯👍

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

The consolidation of news has led directly to information monopolization and extreme power in the hands of a tiny few. Big Tech MUST BE BROKEN UP

[@dvdv8197]

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[@JosedeJezeus]

If your purpose is to make money, then your purpose is corrupt.

[@yahnah9116]

@@JosedeJezeus I mean not really

[@SgtJoeSmith]

@@JosedeJezeus come be my employee. i need employees who dont care about making money

[@SgtJoeSmith]

like unions? and employees?

[@AmpliphyHD]

@@JosedeJezeus this isn’t true but the initial comment is.

[@aptorres01]

In 1996, Slick Willy's Telecommunications Act sold out out not for profit news outlets to the highest bidder.

[@gregbolton1480]

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 ???

[@pranavid]

Vote Blue. Lina Khan will do the rest.

[@virgogyl]

@@pranavidblue and red on the same team

[@dannydaw59]

Give an example of a monopoly. Google, Microsoft, Meta? They're competitors to each other.

[@cassusgames]

⁠@@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.

[@cassusgames]

@@dannydaw59Amazon is another clear example of

[@cliveklg7739]

The Google Meta collab should be target of anti-trust lawsuits, if the U.S. would actually start prosecuting those again.

[@shadowninja6689]

Well the DOJ did recently win a suit against Google for their Monopolistic practices. We're still waiting on what kind of a punishment the DOJ will pursue against Google, and there's still other DOJ cases against Google pending.

[@petemavus2948]

@@cliveklg7739 Warning: This comment may be reported or Shadowbanned. Biden's Lina Khan (Head of the FTC now) *DOES* . Even at this moment Google/YT is trying to get a case before the present corrupted Supremes.

[@Sythemn]

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...

[@bLfjle]

www.senate.ca.gov/senators california state senators, give em a call, let em know how u feel that they let corporate interest ruin that bill in cali

[@David_1789]

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.

[@memememe843]

Actually Sinclair is big, but not as big as nexstar, and thier are any number of other players. They got blasted for committing to objective unbiased news, after seeing the obvious polarization and bias in the industry. But because 90% of journalists producing content are left leaning… Their is a monopoly of opinion and political views in the industry though.

[@marcelcicort9671]

They screemed about regulation for decades only to get away with anything. This is the world of business without regulation or oversight and abuse..

[@hjf3022]

Very skeptical about the Australian news media bargaining code. Was heavily pushed for by the Murdoch Media, and instituted by the right wing conservative (Liberal) party.

[@stevabinok2909]

I am all for local news, and against big tech (or big anything) but 20 years ago it was clear that newspapers are commiting suicide by not embracing the internet. When they were forced online, it was too late. Local businesses would prefer to advertise in local newspaper website than in google, if it was working better and was cheaper.

[@crash.override]

Or if they'd had the wherewithal to actually stay behind paywalls and accept that subscription revenue was still necessary, even for online.

[@shadowninja6689]

@@crash.override it's been proven that paywalls don't work for Internet news, especially by small local newspapers. It just causes their views (and ad revenue) to dry up. Even the bigger newspapers often drop their paywalls periodically for events like the Olympics because they just can't compete against all the free news content out there.

[@Noelciaaa]

Real. I'm from the other side of the ocean and here the local newspaper also has a Facebook page which so many locals follow. They have an additional revenue source by making paid ad posts there.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

20 years ago, they were already being merged into a handful of media outlets. Even if they had embraced the internet, having all the news coming from a handful of corporations with more interest in cutting costs than exposing their own misdeeds would have been a massive problem.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Not so simple as this. My local paper (the Northern Echo, look it up) has since its founding in the 19th century proudly and unashamedly portrayed the working class as feckless, greedy and violent, while boldly refusing to investigate the crimes of the wealthy. Just lately, it has gone on a trans-hating spree, publishing 'news' articles that make trans people seem a danger to society. Our town would have been better _without_ a local newspaper, or at least this one. Freedom of the press is freedom of the wealthy to inflict their views on the people. We need a working class-owned media, not the corporate local media we have now.

[@JustDigitalSimulations]

"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.

[@phoenix5054]

This is 2004? Even then, it is obvious that the internet is the future.

[@JustDigitalSimulations]

@phoenix5054 im 56 years old now, it could have been a bit earlier. I'm not really good with dates. I just remember we were all on dial up, and I was paying some ungodly amount for an isdn line to my home, and Bell South was still around. Craigslist was gaining steam, and the writing was on the wall.

[@salty4life]

You wanna know what YOU can do to personally start affecting google's bottomline? De-Google your life. Replace as many google services from your life with privacy focused competitors.

[@Lifetruth-101]

It's sad how we are losing our freedom and democracy bit by bit😢😢😢

[@flyinpolack6633]

Yes we are. But we are a Republic. Part of the reason we are losing our freedoms is that people don't even understand the structure of the government

[@RachelAmmons]

To corporate oligarchs.

[@meganhutchinson6435]

All of our antitrust laws could have been enforced at the time of sale and avoided these monopolies in the first place the first place.

[@gshak33]

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.

[@quartzofcourse]

Too bad about the flag tho

[@kasahadragon9499]

​@@quartzofcourseyes the shape is odd (to us) but what's wrong with them symbolising bravery (red) and peace (blue border) ?

[@hereforthecomments258]

I thought businesses were bad. Landlords are businesses and you buffoons hate them hahahaha. Can't make up your uninformed minds huh?

[@hereforthecomments258]

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!

[@BrentHollett]

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.

[@tonpetitami]

Lol "No one is above the law": is this dude even from the US?

[@privacyvalued4134]

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.

[@RealHomeRecording]

Agreed regarding craiglist! But as far as subscription cost, people don't even want to pay $1 per month where I live.

[@AddyAdderson]

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.

[@mallik10892]

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.

[@parioceanchicago]

And for local tv news Sinclair Media got them all.

[@Zyo117]

Local newspaper here just shut down too. After over 100 years now we don't have a locally printed paper.

[@AhlquistMediaLab]

In an earlier career, I'd worked at over 100 small to medium sized newspapers, just as the internet was emerging into the mainstream. I think a big component missing from this otherwise excellent video is the wave of corporate consolidations and buy-ups of local news of all kinds before the internet was an issue. It was a significant event and I think paved the way for what you talk about here in a number of ways.

[@TheWorldBelow360]

Geezus it’s Techno Feudalism and our hopes for our governments worldwide simply don’t mean anything beyond how addictive we let the general and generic narrative become.

[@DistrustHumanz]

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.

[@richizzle39]

I can’t wait for Terms of Services to be eliminated and companies held accountable for the shady practices they’ve done while willfully deceiving their customers.

[@christopherjustice6411]

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.

[@Everywhere2]

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.

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

I think the complicated issue is how do we deal with all of these industries that exist only because of advertising by other giant evil corporations. The hobby lobby's of the world giving meta money instead of the local paper isn't really the issue. The issue is that they exist at all.

[@greatestone4eva]

just another idea: what if journalism wasn't ad-based?

[@RealHomeRecording]

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

[@tewuzij]

Ultimately, high-quality journalism would be liberated from capitalist motives at that point in time.

[@bugsygoo]

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.

[@AddyAdderson]

That's exactly what editors and publishers of newspapers envisioned starting in the early '90's. It has not gone well.

[@crash.override]

There are a number of newspapers in other countries which are openly mouthpieces of political parties, and thus less dependent on ad revenue. It kinda works in that they all wanna criticize the other parties' handling of things. Less claim of objectivity, and doesn't solve local news.

[@FamiAoi]

This is the same as when combustion cars were invented, then decades later it's all we drove and people said, "well what about the horse carriages?!" If your very existence is of outdated ways or technology, what do you expect? A time will come when youtube, smart phones, the internet itself will become obsolete and zoomers in their 80s will say, "but what about fortnite and Minecraft! It's all shutting down because of that new bigger idea."

[@mobrocket]

It goes back to the biggest source of the problem Consumers. They deserve the blame so many times yet are treated like they are innocent

[@Everywhere2]

Consumerism, that is - a mindset actively instilled in individuals from childhood on by interests that will gain both profits and power from it.

[@jolness1]

Great piece. I work for Montana Free Press (come check us out) and this is our driving force. Corporate consolidation in news and ads has destroyed the one source of trusted local info for most communities.

[@OilBaron100]

Before Canada, this same problem happened in Australia.

[@realCoryGoodwin]

Local news is struggling, not just because of ad revenue shifts but due to the aggregation of news. Reporters invest time and effort into investigative journalism, only for their work to be summarized by TV news or Google. This raises a crucial question: Is the product worth it? Maybe the future lies in nonprofit watchdog groups ensuring vital information reaches the public. It's a challenging landscape, but perhaps a new model can preserve the essence of local journalism. Let's cherish and support our local news heroes!

[@TammyDG]

Absolutely love vids like this that highlight things that so many of us are thinking. What google and meta r doing is so so dangerous

[@RiosCosma]

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[@Martina73823]

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[@SofiaVitali-w9h]

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[@natazer]

We created a monster that now is consuming us.

[@jodywho6696]

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. 😮

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

Clinton, actually. But right on, otherwise.

[@RBzee112]

Deregulation of media (and other industries) started with Reagan. He also made infomercials possible.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

@@RBzee112 That I couldn’t speak to. I just know the Telecomm act was in 1996

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@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.

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

Local news is so important too!

[@mrpersianality6363]

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

[@mitchbandalan9450]

Sad they didnt see it prior and only after the damage were done.

[@MichaelMassie]

The problem isn't changing business models but enabled monopolies.

[@lbjcb5]

Facts

[@Youtuber69428]

Two things can be true

[@cindylee2379]

Most corporate media is so biased saving them isn't worth the effort.

[@LilithPl3asant]

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.

[@nicklang7670]

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!

[@ghhdgjjfjjggj]

I'm with Metta with this one, as a Canadian. The govt are idiots.

[@LGtheCat]

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

[@bigwheelsturning]

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.

[@Snarksneeze]

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 KZbin, 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.

[@gussampson5029]

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.

[@luddity]

Yes, news corps protect their sponsors interests more than they serve their customers. That's one reason crowd sourced news is far superior.

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

For the algortihm! more people need to see this!

[@AJ81788]

Supporting this channel!

[@frankiew8532]

Let's get one thing straight, the USA has encouraged and allowed monopolization to happen and still does, not just in America but allowed it to spill over globally.

[@LDJ-r8e]

….with the help of the us government and intelligence agencies.

[@drblais5193]

no you mean rich conservative donors

[@-Timur1214]

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

[@papayayaya5049]

@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

[@drblais5193]

@@papayayaya5049 am radio is all fascist trash now

[@ArcturusAlpha]

@@drblais5193 you mean rich donors. they have no party allegiance. this channel would do well to call out politicians on both sides

[@michaeld4861]

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.

[@sleepovershelter]

I wish news was a movie theatre like in the 20s & not addictive on phones

[@keything8487]

"newspapers" lost their edge when folks wanted NEWS (instantly), not something printed on in paper a day later (or more). the old timey papers price went through the roof, and the content was stale. their time has gone..........i do like the new "news journalist" getting paid, that part is a good thing.

[@bmasters1981]

Indeed-- I remember when just a quarter would get you a good-size Greenville News in my hometown (and just a buck got you a good Sunday). Nowadays, you can't tell a Sunday from a Monday, and worse, there are no more Sunday papers; they are all "Weekend" papers that go for $5 (dailies being $3.50 or $4), for which you can thank Gannett/USA Today Network, for one thing.

[@Petch85]

Well many of the small companies that use to advertise in local papers have also been killed of by shopping over the internet. (Amazon)

[@williamdunn4811]

With thanksgiving coming up, point out that Fox News and CNN have the same major share holders.

[@bmasters1981]

And neither one is news as I grew up with it-- apparently Big Tech thinks that talking heads shouting long and loud and over and over again about stuff we've already heard about is the same as reporting the news (then again, many here lately want that, and think that actual reporting of news is boring as all get out; I myself have never felt that way).

[@gusgreen3104]

When we let the oligarchs horde the newspaper business years ago, I watched all our local papers disappear.

[@jameslong9921]

At this point Google is basically SkyNet, does anyone else sometimes feel like we are sleep walking on the path to our own doom?

[@albongo3949]

Shutting the lights off and restructuring everything NEEDS to take place. Make the nation, by the people for the people again

[@ArcturusAlpha]

clearly trump wont do it.

[@albongo3949]

@@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

[@mkprods538]

Updates to this story are appreciated. They ruined Search, then moved on.

[@rookie28604]

I hate big corporations as much as the next person but this sounds like lack of innovation and falling behind the times to me.

[@Youtuber69428]

How is google censoring content related to legislation that would impact it a lack of innovation, or falling behind the times?

[@bigjohncenahead6667]

Facebook and Twitter (X) had recently started removing the local media links in Poland because of a similar law. And the newspapers here do not like how this goes.

[@enkilm]

We need Lina Khan in there!

[@showcaseSampa]

She's got Moxie.

[@lunarmodule6419]

Canadian here - Google and Meta really had the upper hand and just said "Nope".

[@lifewithjosef]

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.

[@ArcturusAlpha]

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.

[@RealHomeRecording]

​@@ArcturusAlphaI'm a journalist volunteer for my local area. I fund it with my business. The big problem? WordPress bots!

[@elainelouve]

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 KZbin image ads in the feed are likely scams. The video ads that KZbin 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.

[@TheSteveBoyd]

Yeah... Imma hold my breath and wait for the corporate criminals to be held accountable. They have unwoven the fabric of society. It is too late.

[@admiralkaede]

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

[@jjuniper479]

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.

[@thirdcoast6513]

@00:13 this guy looks fammilar. Can you put names and titles in the videos for speakers please?

[@HarrisSounds]

I thought the same thing! Good suggestion

[@TheOak12345]

Chuck Todd - NBC News

[@forivall]

It's funny, in the first split second, I thought he was Tom Mulcair (former leader of Canada's NDP)

[@prunabluepepper]

@@thirdcoast6513 I think this das a bought video. I don't think the channel put any effort in it, or even researched the topic.

[@whetcollective]

Me too hahaha! Your Canadian is showing!

[@youtubetroll6620]

WHEN I SEE ADDS!!!! I MAKE NOTE, DO NOT EVER BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM...

[@lohphat]

Why aren't the other people in the video identified?

[@Wahunganganshapunck]

Seems like a good move for Canada to let FB keep not having news...

[@thatfatman6978]

I don't like Google/Meta but asking them the pay journalists their "fair share" is like asking the people building EV's to pay Ford and Chevy for each EV sold because they are taking business from ICE manufactures.

[@louurich9087]

For and Chevy both build EVs. Well selling ones too.

[@ChopperChad]

Many local newspapers killed themselves because they failed to compete-doing the same ole things for 160 yrs. As much as we may not want, time marches on and business have to meet customers where they are. Legislatively limiting the desire of the public out of some sense of nostalgia, or to prop up business who are competing in their grandads market instead of todays market, is its on form of oppression.

[@Наукаитехника-р6ф]

Social fascist networks that censor everything is form of neo-feudalism.

[@louurich9087]

Lies, all lies. Even small town newspapers have websites and social media presence. Most have had said websites since the mid-90s.

[@EricDMMiller]

It's the advertisers and every business model that relies on advertising that is evil. End advertising and end advertisers.

[@michaelburrell4685]

I grew up in Greer, SC. I still live 12 miles away in Greenville, SC. I remember when the Greer Citizen closed in July. It was staple of our community. It hit me hard seeing Greer in a KZbin video about decline.

[@Petch85]

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.

[@ArcturusAlpha]

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.

[@Everywhere2]

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!

[@louurich9087]

@@Everywhere2 Lies. Even small town papers have had websites since the 90s. You are just telling lies.

[@louurich9087]

To be fair you are lying. There were local newspaper KZbin videos about the 2008 financial crisis, as it happened.

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

if you allow companies to purchase other companies that would otherwise compete or serve them, then abuse and monopolization is inevitable. mergers are one of the biggest ways corporations(shareholders) cheat capitalism with wealth.

[@sdagoth3037]

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.

[@christopheralbright9650]

Very important issue! Good reporting, y'all! I miss my local newspaper...I miss our local ALTERNATIVELY news outlets :/ Keep up the good work! Hopefully we can get news out to the citizens again soon...

[@NottABlack]

Google &Facebook didn't kill off local news, they might've helped, but people chose to stop supporting their local news, and if you don't support them financially, they will close down. It's like the mom and pop shops, Walmart didn't kill those small businesses, people stopped going to them as much. Personal responsibility.

[@showcaseSampa]

Let's put it this way.... these minopolies ignited the path to decline.

[@AJFish-rm6cv]

Nobody pays for TV news. They bought the newspaper and still do. I may have paid for cable.

[@shadowninja6689]

Local TV news made me stop watching them with how atrocious their news coverage became. Virtually all their stories fell into one of a few categories. 1) Hyping up the weather, especially when it was snowing (which often results in sending their reporters all over the place to basically say "yep it's snowing here to!"), 2) Endless stories that were essentially pep rallies for one of the local sports teams. 3) Hyping up the latest crime that happened in the biggest city in the area that they cover, leading many to have the false impression that crime is up even when it's dropping. 4) Things that basically fall in the category of "slow news day filler garbage", like "the baker at such and such bakery will be doing their job and making lots of baked goods today!" (I wish I was kidding about this but I'm not. This story even made it onto Jay Leno's tonight show in a short segment mocking useless slow news day stories).

[@kdavidsmith1]

Thing is those box stores move into town and undercut the mom and pop stores to the point where the box stores are taking a loss, but then drive the mom & pop out of business. Combined with falling buying power on the consumer side, it becomes really hard for the consumer to justify spending more on goods at the money & pop when they save money and shop at a big box store

[@showcaseSampa]

@@kdavidsmith1 True.... But the big box also hijacks of joy of shopping as well. Notice in NY people go to Bodegas. In smaller towns in Italy and France, folks head to the daily farmer's market. It is a joy to actually buy something from a merchant that not only appreciates your buck, he/she also services you better. Seldom ever a meat counter at a chain supermarket beats the local butcher in how you get your cuts. Same deal with fishmongers getting the fresh catch of the day. Or, in Paris, going to your local bakery. In Boston or Providence, you had the Italian grocer at the North End, to expedite the groceries just bought and paid in store, to the old lady's home. Do you think Big Box Stores will do clothing fitting ? Nooo. It is from the rack to the cashier, and get the hell out of heeeere. Getting where i am going at ?

[@RussellFineArt]

It's odd to hear that people get their news and information off of Facebook, or X. I'm not on X and only glance at fb here and there, to see family and friend's posts, and get my news from online ABC News.

[@SeanWork]

As someone that works in this industry (and Google makes my life hell) this particular documentary has a strong bias feel to it. It makes it feel like Google is doing something evil and unethical when it's really just changing of the times. I THINK the problem is ad networks kinda destroyed the payouts for publishers. Placing a print ad is pretty expensive as a business and usually has little ROI. Now you can just spend and TEST ads online for a lot less. Local publishers can incorporate online ads on their sites, but the payout are peanuts because they don't get to negotiate the payout. It's whatever the network is paying. It's actually WAY more fair for local businesses, but definitely sucks for print publications. My latest thought is small local publishers need to take control of their online ad sales again. They need to stop using ad networks. I'm hoping there is a creative solution to all this that keeps the small publisher alive.

[@scpatl4now]

You missed the point. Google and Meta are taking the content from these newsrooms and publishing it without any compensation to the people producing it, while at the same time stealing their ad revenue on said content because they use monopolistic practices to do so. I don't think it is biased at all

[@enkilm]

The more ad revenue per newspaper should lower the cost per subscription and increase the revenue per advertisement for good and proper journalism(not that cheap content from Sinclair shit)but honestly gathered locally sourced information that cannot be shared by more than one news outlet and you will see your newspaper flourish for the locals can smell a newspaper like USA Today that only survives because it has a deal with hotels and such to be given as a curtesy and is a Murdoch property like Wall Street Journal and the New York Post and works in tandem with The Washington Times.

[@ArcturusAlpha]

big companies can buy ad priority though.

[@Immudzen]

We need some HUGE trust breaking.

[@ManMountainMetals]

Local newspapers are incredibly biased.

[@EarlHare]

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.

[@ManMountainMetals]

I like how you try to put words in my mouth.

[@crash.override]

Perfect objectivity is impossible. With more outlets, there's a better chance the biases are different and one of them covers a story properly.

[@ManMountainMetals]

@crash.override perfect objectivity? Here's the situation. The people who run the town also own the businesses that purchase ads in the paper. Say anything negative about the way the town is run and no more half page ads for the mayor's car lot. Say something positive, and maybe next week, the carlot buys a full-page ad instead of a half page one 🤔

[@louurich9087]

No they aren’t. The consistently rate the least bias forms of news, check any news bias or fact checking website.

[@johnshafer7214]

We also defunded education at the same time. Google runs all the schools as well. This should be scary.

[@gussampson5029]

How does Google run all the schools?

[@RealHomeRecording]

​@@gussampson5029Chromebooks Schools use a lot of cloud apps that are Google based

[@virgogyl]

@@gussampson5029i’m really not sure but i’m assuming they’re partners so schools can use chromebooks? or google is the preferred search engine

[@sarahlouwho]

​@@gussampson5029I don't know how much they affect educational content, but many schools require every student to have a Chromebook, and they submit their assignments through Google docs. As they are on a Chromebook for all their computer based work, Google is going to be their default search engine as well.

[@justincoombs9048]

I feel a small percentage of all advertising revenue should need to be spent on journalism payroll.

[@rontropics26]

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?

[@drosberg3680]

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.

[@rontropics26]

@@drosberg3680 that somehow makes less sense to me. Wouldn’t the news websites want traffic to their sites from social media links?

[@waelhussein4606]

Where is the FDC?

[@javier7599]

Disgusting. The DOJ needs to sue Meta and Google. Especially KZbin

[@nobbyfirefly57]

Meta and Google will just lobby for the DOJ to do nothing

[@wictimovgovonca320]

... 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.

[@famousbowl9926]

Lol that's cute.... the DOJ

[@mobrocket]

Sue for what on YT?

[@drblais5193]

russiagate killed digital media when they black listed RT and the left

[@thestraightroad305]

This is one of my most valuable channels, along with Belle of the Ranch (formerly Beau of the Fifth Column) and its associated channels. Edit: Go Australia!

[@tadmarshall2739]

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.

[@crash.override]

The video also overlooks the problem of lazy news outlets (e.g. HuffPo) shamelessly ripping a story from another outlet that did actual investigation, putting one link back to the original, and then writing their own article with nothing useful added. And only so many people click thru to the original story, so they're siphoning off pageviews. Lazy repost outlets don't deserve the same payments.

[@gregslaughter73]

News providers should form a shared paywall where someone only pays once for access to all participating media - profits can be shared then in proportion to which providers a given user accesses.