Executives from some of the biggest U.S. news organizations met with a British economist last fall at Washington’s exclusive Metropolitan Club to strategize on a mutual obsession: getting their industry out from under the thumb of Google and Facebook.
U.S. media advocates say they have drawn major lessons from discussions with their European counterparts, including the need to band together and put aside their traditional rivalries. Chavern, a former U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive, has repeatedly traveled to Europe to learn from his EU counterparts about their combat with tech. During a January trip to Berlin, he met with VG Media, a so-called collecting society that serves as a clearinghouse for fees owed to news publishers, and sat down with Axel Springer’s chief lobbyist, Dietrich von Klaeden.
were that “the government must take steps to ensure the position of Google and Facebook does not do undue harm to publishers."The publishers' efforts in the EU have already borne fruit.
The legislation represents a major change in the media companies’ strategy: Until recently, individual American publishers attempted to negotiate one-off, ad hoc deals with Google and Facebook in attempts to extract more money or more online readership data on better terms. It was, they say, an unsatisfying experience.
“I’m not asking the government to do anything other than leave us alone,” said Chavern. “I’m trying to drive an immediate solution for news publishers to build a sustainable future.”
US News companies are hoping to break antitrust laws designed to protect consumers because they are convinced that people CHOOSING to use .Google and .facebook instead of other search engines and SocialMedia platforms makes them a Monopoly. Or just good companies?
So if that is the case; what about the ppl that do not even pay attention to your schemes eh? I have oodles of friends that doesn't read or watch msm because of the bias and stretching truth that use to be spin. HuffPost TeamCavuto NeilAxelrod oann NextNewsNet BillOReilly
LauKaya The vitality & independence of the Fourth Estate is particularly important at a time when the new sovereigns aren’t nation-states, & who enjoy broad immunity for their actions under laws like CDA §230 & DMCA §512. The EU has taken an important first step.