Zeit Online - Google News mashup - Google making controversial moves in the influence space.
The report from Zeit goes on to spell out just how Google will work with the German political magazine and others to create a more "sustainable model" for developing news. Zeit, along with the Financial Times, the Guardian, Les Echos in France, El Pais in Spain, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung are the core of an Initiative Committee of eight founding members of the new Google news cadre, cohort, cartel, shoot!... group I mean. However Google and these founders frame the announcement, sane individuals have to be asking; "Are you serious?"
€150 million euro. That's €18.75 million euro each if my math is correct. Where Zeit is concerned, I guess Germany's most influential online mouthpiece can now "develop in the right way?" My question is How? How should these media outlets adjust their output, their infrastructure, their monetization and business plans to be more sustainable? From my perspective Google has solved the problem with their bank card - instantly! Just do and say what we want, and we give money! Or am I wrong?
Sure Google has done a lot to further technology and business online over the years, but how is another high tech Google News innovation coming out of all this? Or is Google simply that worried about this anti-trust thing? Certainly the 19 companies that filed complaints with the EU must have taken note of the "revolutionary" way in which Google is attempting to upscale European news. Honestly now, does Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager have wind of this latest competition sustainability windfall?
An EU Commission infographic depicting how Google “might” be favoring Google.
Since we’ve arrived at this uneasy juncture of journalistic sustainability, here’s my mashup of how “MAYBE” Zeit Editor Giovanni di Lorenzo could be eye-balling bags and bags of euros from Google’s Larry Page - MAYBE.
It is not possible for big business to operate without fraud. The bigger the business, the bigger the fraud, manipulation and pustulent (oozing with death and dying) deception. This is the factory (corporate)/military hierarchy and a false (though widely broadcast as true) mechanical (technological) advantage taking over what was once a living, being, fully organic enterprise/non-enterprise.
Life, in being 'life', always contradicts itself intellectually at various points, because it is free or is seeking, hungering for same (freedom). Only by becoming more and more alive does one see this contradiction as also a non-contradiction and move past intellectuality and ordinary reason. And this is the key to life and to not being reduced to a mechanically advantaged but dead (always horrifically/progressively so) thing.....a beastly number....with a high intellect (smart factories, smart cities, smart planet--DUH) though, of course!
So it (the claimed 'mechanical advantage', the big business {including science} theory and application) gets worse and worse and worse, even as it claims to be getting bigger/better and bigger/better and bigger/better. Anyone with eyes should be able to see this, but people are blind and are very susceptible to greed, ie, steady applications of this heavily advertised and propagandized 'mechanical (technological) advantage'. Surely some of you see this though??? I think so.
Continuing: A great many present (and 'successful) 'businesses' pass themselves off as small and 'independent' or 'local', when they are in fact tentacles of the one giant fraud, a part of the one giant bureaucracy (and centralized authoritarian government). Knowing this, this is why I do as I do here at Sott and why I continually protest and act or write strangely or non-appreciative or downright hostile at times--to bust the bureaucracy as it happens or tries to happen. This is a method.
Overall, living community and the human component, which is to say, love and the ability to place one's self in the position of another (empathy), are almost always completely missing, stolen, taken away......by big business, bureaucracy and the continuous operation of this mechanical (technological) advantage.
Sorry if I confuse some of you dumbasses and hoping (knowing) that some of you are not.
Take care and enjoy the day, best you can.
ned, out