{"id":6984,"date":"2024-06-06T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/making-google-and-facebook-pay-wont-save-journalism\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:00:17","slug":"making-google-and-facebook-pay-wont-save-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/making-google-and-facebook-pay-wont-save-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Google and Facebook pay won\u2019t save journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The federal government is talking tough about making Google and Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or featuring, these publishers\u2019 content.<\/p>\n<p>The digital platforms have been talking equally tough. Facebook is threatening to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/breaking-news\/google-facebook-senate-inquiry-kicks-off-into-news-bargaining-code\/news-story\/a604d4108bf947010cb29683994cd528\">remove Australian news stories<\/a>\u00a0and Google says it will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/google-threatens-to-disable-search-in-australia-if-media-code-becomes-law-20210122-p56w2h.html\">shut off search to Australia<\/a>\u00a0if the government pushes ahead with its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=r6652\">mandatory bargaining code<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The code is meant to help alleviate the revenue crisis facing news publishers. Over the past two decades they have made deep cuts to newsrooms. Scores of local print papers have become \u201cdigital only\u201d or been shut&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mediamakersmeet.com\/the-old-news-business-model-is-broken-making-google-and-facebook-pay-wont-save-journalism\/\">\u0438\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is talking tough about making Google and Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or featuring, these publishers\u2019 content. The digital platforms have been talking equally tough. Facebook is threatening to\u00a0remove Australian news stories\u00a0and Google says it will\u00a0shut off search to Australia\u00a0if the government pushes ahead with its \u201cmandatory bargaining code\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,372],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-business-mk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}