The Age doesn’t pay the State Parliament to talk about politics. It doesn’t pay restaurants to talk about their restaurants (besides paying for their meal when it’s a review, of course.) It doesn’t pay the AFL to talk about footy. Nor do they pay the families of murder victims whose deaths they monetise.
These news organisations are asking Google to pay for something; forgetting that their entire business is based on monetising news events which they do not pay for.
To expect Google to pay them for the privilege of sending traffic which they can’t figure out how to monetise is ridiculous.
Especially so when all traffic to the Herald Sun, for example, runs directly into a pay wall.
It’s on THEM to figure out their business model. Google is literally teeing up thousands of possible customers for them on a daily basis. What more do they have any right to ask for?
The Age doesn’t pay the State Parliament to talk about politics. It doesn’t pay restaurants to talk about their restaurants (besides paying for their meal when it’s a review, of course.) It doesn’t pay the AFL to talk about footy. Nor do they pay the families of murder victims whose deaths they monetise.
These news organisations are asking Google to pay for something; forgetting that their entire business is based on monetising news events which they do not pay for.
To expect Google to pay them for the privilege of sending traffic which they can’t figure out how to monetise is ridiculous.
Especially so when all traffic to the Herald Sun, for example, runs directly into a pay wall.
It’s on THEM to figure out their business model. Google is literally teeing up thousands of possible customers for them on a daily basis. What more do they have any right to ask for?