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LEGACY PRINT MEDIA HATE THEM! Local tech company discovers one weird trick to gain positive press coverage FAST!\n\nWe sit down with journalist Alexander Fanta to talk Google's place in the media landscape, how their funding of local news or grants for "innovation" may well have a more sinister purpose, and how other organisations are already using the unsteady revenue model of legacy print media to warp the media landscape to their liking. \n\nLinks to Alex\u2019s work\nhttps://netzpolitik.org/author/alexander-fanta/ \nhttps://twitter.com/FantaAlexx\nhttps://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/wissenschaftsportal/publikationen/titel/google-the-media-patron/aktion/show/obspaec/Publication/ \n\nMore background: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/are-google-and-facebook-really-the-future-of-journalism-new-policies-risk-making-it-so.php\n\n\nPlease note - Google is far from alone\nFacebook have a similar playbook in the USA, but hide their funding in a \u2018feature\u2019 available only to publishers called Facebook News. (Us neither). https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/04/19/is-facebook-buying-off-the-new-york-times/\n\nLike what you hear?\nSupport us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/connectedanddisaffected\nFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/canddpodcast\nJoin us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/connectedanddisaffected/\nFind us on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/C_and_D_Podcast/\nSubscribe on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2xVDd0NSp6gsh6Ku2odlop\nor find us on ITunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conn\u2026ed/id1244893114\n___\n\nThis podcast is part of the Are We Europe Podcast Family, a collective of like-minded European podcasts. You can become a member of Are We Europe at www.areweeurope.com/member