The News Media Alliance, which represents leading newspaper publishers, called on Congress for an anti-trust exemption that would allow publishers to negotiate jointly with Facebook and Google, a “duopoly” that controls distribution of much the publishers’ content and dominants the digital ad market, reports TV Newscheck, which added that the exemption “would correct “pervasive problems that today are diminishing the overall health and quality of the news media industry,” said NMA CEO David Chavern in a statement.
“According to the NMA, “News organizations are limited with disaggregated negotiating power against a de facto duopoly that is vacuuming up all but an ever-decreasing segment of advertising revenue.
“”Because of this digital duopoly, publishers are forced to surrender their content and play by their rules on how news and information is displayed, prioritized and monetized.
“”These rules have commoditized the news and given rise to fake news, which often cannot be differentiated from real news.”
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