Local newspapers needs a lifeline: Facebook and Google need to pay up | Editorial
is threatened, remember to include our metastatic ignorance – which results from the loss of robust news sources that keep our communities informed and civically engaged.
through two Congressional committees that will allow newspapers to gain more of the revenue currently held captive by the giant platforms. The game-changing measure is known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, and aThe core problem is that the tech giants have managed to use their market power, and their enormous banks of data on all of us, to capture ad revenue that once went to newspapers.
The JCPA would give newspapers an eight-year exemption to antitrust laws, allowing them to band together and negotiate as a group, and level the playing field with these giant platforms., with enthusiastic support from conservative sponsors such as Sen. John Kennedy , who calls local papers “the heart and soul of journalism” and warns that “tech giants like Facebook and Google. . . .are killing local journalism.
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