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Why would anyone be thrilled about having to funnel cash to News Corp? The news business is dead, and good riddance because it descended into yellow journalism and clickbait garbage.

Check the News.com.au homepage and observe it looks like a worse Daily Mail.

>The news business is dead, and good riddance because it descended into yellow journalism and clickbait garbage.

I think it could be the other way around, where people expecting news online and free has meant declining revenues, click-bait and ad-infested news articles.

News aggregators get the user's onto their site without the overhead.

Rightly so. This is a shakedown by Murdoch

Keep in mind Google are being forced to display the content AND pay for it.

Well they did say this:

https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/rgs-statement-o...

Not sure what happened after that...