John Young on Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:27:05 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Google dubbed internet parasite by WSJ editor |
Getting rid of advertising in news media is worth considering, no matter the technology used, paper, airwaves, internet. The need for advertising to support news is not an absolute, merely a rationale for boosting profits, and worse, valorizing advertising way beyond its value. Consumer supported news, paying directly for access, bypassing the hoary advertising intrusion, seems to work fairly well for books, art works, sex, and other enterprises which sell products by a simple pay as you get model. Advertisers should try to sell their wares directly to consumers and no longer pretend they are needed to costume news and other products. Pay $10 bucks for a newspaper? Why not? At least the useless rags would die, or better, never be invented and recycled as socially beneficial. A lot of media peddle trash to peddle ads, with little content other than puke regurgitated repeatedly. No doubt middle persons will insinuate themselves into any model of communication, whtether priests, teachers, lawyers, critics, counselors, busybodies and gossips, yes, intellectuals (spit) and philosophers (gag). No offense to those hustlers and con artists and panhandlers here, much. A ban on bloated resumes, too. A creator should make a case for every sale, no riding on one's past accomplishments, no ads for peurility and wizened theft from youngsters and unwary bed mates who are taught to think love of venerables is a good thing, so sayeth the good book of bridge selling. Google will wither and be replaced when ads are extinct, or when it has to produce a product worth paying for. Anybody who has been fleeced by Google to run its dinky ads or buy its sterile ads, knows the racketeering par excellence. The rise of search engines of all stripes, along with the burgeoning archives and wikes, portends an accounting to come for the public trust in freebies and participations when the data gathering is cashed in by sale to governments and corporations, then as now by the media industry, oops, forget not the educational and salvation industries. Holier than ever, absolutely essential to the survival of democracy (puke) they forever yell, building edifices of gargantuan scale, well, Google-like. Bashed a highly reputable tenured lately? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org