Newsroom death spirals, not good.
For those of us who enjoy watching Dodger games on SportsNet LA, each season brings with it, along with the living highlight film that is Mookie Betts, a batch of annoying commercials apparently bought in bulk by one oddball outfit — along with the normal ads for fast food and whatnot.
This season, the bulk buy, running over and over , was created not by some entrepreneur using the aesthetic sensibility of a 1967 weird-product catalog but by one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world: Google. There was no variety to the ad — it was the same one, on repeat. It told viewers that something called the California Journalism Protection Act was aimed at interfering with their right to “search” for the news online, and that if they enjoyed being able to do so, for free, they ought to contact their lawmakers in Sacramento and urge them to “find a better solution.”
The act, AB 886, was authored by Assemblywoman Buff Wicks of Oakland, and, along with the allied SB 1327 from state Sen. Steven Glazer, seemed to have been making headway in the Legislature, despite the laser focus of opposition by my-lunch-eating Big Tech.
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