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Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We already have taxpayer-funded media here the ABC (fully funded) and the SBS (partially funded), if the government invested more into these outlets there would be no need for the utter shit, lies, fear and LNP propaganda put forth by Murdoch, Seven-West and Nine-Fairfax.

An impartial media is essential to a functioning democracy, I agree with that, it's the rich bastards we've got right now that we don't need. We don't need biased opinion pieces, people should be able to think critically and form their own opinions. Not vote for whoever their local Murdoch paper wants them to vote for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

So long as there’s a strong mechanism to ensure their independence, this is the way to go. We used to have taxpayer-funded journalism (PBS and NPR) in the US. They still exist, but they’re forced to solicit ~~advertisers~~ “underwriters” to keep the lights on thanks to Reagan and Gingrich.

We have Murdoch’s “Fox News” too. I think that man may be evil incarnate. You guys can have him back. :)