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I get my news from Yahoo news service. Yahoo gets their news from newspapers and other sources...but...?
Yahoo doesn't maintain or pay for a newsroom or journalists. Do you think Yahoo should pay a fee to newspapers for their stories that they take from them?
i just mean, if newspapers are struggling to compete with the internet, and eventually newspapers are put out of business...then who will maintain the news rooms full of journalists, which is where breaking stories are put together.
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- Tad DubiousLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Your point is a good one for extended discussion. I believe that if Yahoo helps put newspapers out of business, two things may happen: 1. Yahoo will have no news to distribute; or 2. journalists will evolve to investigate, report and write in other venues.
- Whatever4Lv 71 decade ago
Yahoo is serving as a news search engine to direct traffic to news sites. If you click through to the story, the newspaper gets a hit. That's worth it to the newspaper. You might be interested in other stories on that page. There is advertising on that page. That's traffic they wouldn't normally have.
I'm not sure how the Yahoo hosted pages work, they may pay for the AP and other feeds. I did notice a non-wire story that had a description of the media service on the bottom, so it doesn't look like Yahoo just hijacked the content.
- 1 decade ago
Not really.
All media is generally stolen from other papers these days, and yahoonews is excellent for people who dont like buying trashy newspapers, and like a brief overview of recent news.
News is information on recent happenings in the world - Just because one newspaper wrote about it first, doesn't mean they and they alone own the right to that story.
