Post by DDNYjets on Jul 11, 2017 7:48:07 GMT -5
reason.com/archives/2017/07/10/newspaper-publishers-plea-for-perks
Not even Congress has the power to turn back that clock to the old days of publishing. Nor would anyone with any sense want it to.
tl;dr Three of the world's richest billionaires are whining that their personal propaganda machines are getting their asses handed to them by another website that picks winners and losers, Google. They want Congress to put their thumb on the scale and help them.
Let them eat each other.
Not even Congress has the power to turn back that clock to the old days of publishing. Nor would anyone with any sense want it to.
It's the sort of brazen move that might ordinarily trigger a front-page news story or an outraged editorial—a bunch of very rich individuals asking Congress to write them a law that would give them better negotiating power against other rich individuals.
Yet in this case, the rich individuals wanting special treatment are the newspaper owners themselves. The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (worth $83.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index), The New York Times largest shareholder Carlos Slim (worth $61.1 billion), and Buffalo News owner Warren Buffett ($76.9 billion), publicly pleading poverty, are asking Congress for a helping hand in their negotiations with Google, controlled by Sergey Brin ($45.6 billion) and Larry Page ($46.8 billion).
Yet in this case, the rich individuals wanting special treatment are the newspaper owners themselves. The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (worth $83.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index), The New York Times largest shareholder Carlos Slim (worth $61.1 billion), and Buffalo News owner Warren Buffett ($76.9 billion), publicly pleading poverty, are asking Congress for a helping hand in their negotiations with Google, controlled by Sergey Brin ($45.6 billion) and Larry Page ($46.8 billion).
tl;dr Three of the world's richest billionaires are whining that their personal propaganda machines are getting their asses handed to them by another website that picks winners and losers, Google. They want Congress to put their thumb on the scale and help them.
Let them eat each other.
