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Does the author of this piece believe that Hacker News is exploiting her? Evidently not, as she posted it here. Like news organizations tend to do on Facebook or use AMP on Google.
“That’s why we’re building Forth, a news-first platform that pays journalists for their work and offers the audience concise updates with context -- from the reporters they trust. All revenue generated on Forth is shared with our news partners.
We only allow trusted and credible journalists (vetted by our editorial team) to publish to the platform. It's a one-stop shop for accurate information about what's happening right now.”
"Vetted by our editorial team" sounds insanely slow, which will be an excuse when biased Forth staff don't want to approve writers they don't personally like.
If news companies don't want Facebook and Google to use their content then all they need to do is add a * Disallow to their robots.txt file.
But of course the truth is that they entirely depend on them for traffic.
Unfortunately newspapers made a massive mistake giving their news away for free in the early 00s. That set a precedent that has been impossible to reverse for all but a few large well-funded papers.
Local journalism has practically evaporated. It wasn’t really because Facebook stole the news. It was because Facebook stole their ad revenue, and the classified pages (a major revenue source for local journalism) have been swallowed by Craigslist and others.
Edit: the decade
Towards the end of the post we find out why they want to block news links from Facebook and Google, they are setting up a competing platform. “That’s why we’re building Forth, a news-first platform that pays journalists for their work and offers the audience concise updates with context -- from the reporters they trust. All revenue generated on Forth is shared with our news partners. We only allow trusted and credibl…
>newsrooms have willingly handed over billions of dollars in ad revenue to the tech giants that threaten their very existence.
As in newspapers are buying ads? Why?
>is the Co-Founder of Forth Wait, so it's an ad for a new news platform? But where is it? How can I use this new platform?
Towards the end of the post we find out why they want to block news links from Facebook and Google, they are setting up a competing platform. “That’s why we’re building Forth, a news-first platform that pays journalists for their work and offers the audience concise updates with context -- from the reporters they trust. All revenue generated on Forth is shared with our news partners. We only allow trusted and credibl…
> For too long, journalists have given away their stories for free in exchange for distribution by the duopoly. The news industry does not "give" their stories to Facebook or Google. It allows the placement of links to the stories on those sites. (I use the term "allow" loosely, since in many jurisdictions they do not have the right to restrict in-linking.) The news industry is free to try to prevent in-linking. The…
I think we should #AbolishImaginaryProperyLaws and not reward the creation of non-sense by any of these actors.