it s the truth, but they have the weird moralistic puritanical strain where they don t want certain images being showed on their site. if these president clintonublications don t think long-term, facebook will be a de facto editor controlling what people see or don t, they re dreaming. so brief answers, would you make a deal with facebook? like i said you know, we don t rely we re not a big mass media publication. we speak to a very small, very intelligent audience that we think really you know, moves money around tech and controls the world. so we don t rely on huge social stream and we don t rely on this fire hose coming you re doing your own thing. we might experiment with it but i wouldn t bet my business on it. so verizon buying aol, which includes the huffington post, $4 billion deal. i m reading all these business writers praising this for the synergy of buying a once glorious digital company, i m
on facebook they never come to your site, yes, you get some mad revenue and recognition, but facebook down the line could change the terms and make it a lot more onerous and everybody will be trapped in zuckerberg s world. and facebook will change the terms. we know they will. they it rate on their terms and fees constantly. this is why facebook was comfortable giving up so much concessions to these guys going into it because now that they have this group of publishers they can strong arm all the other big publishers to coming in because they re going to use the fact that yurss see these stories quicker, so it s more user friendly to support them in the news feed, other than everyone else, and everyone else who relies on facebook for travel will have to follow suit and facebook will change the rules. and it s not that facebook is an evil company, but they re not a journalism company. they have this weird thing where they don t share the ethics of journalism companies in terms of you
message? are you concerned at all that given the allegations that may overshadow your message? i have been in this business 52 years and i will i have never seen anything like this. reality is a situation and i cannot speak. one of strangest television moments i have ever seen and as someone would grew up laughing with him i have to say really, by is that the best you can do? you oh us an actual response to the awful allegations. that is it for media buzz, i am howard kurtz we hope you luke our facebook page, we post a lot of original content. you might get a response from me. also check out or podcast and
outlets and facebook really really tripped over themselves to make it look like none of those doomsday scenarios were coming true. so on the facebook side they gave up huge concessions to the media publishers to look like hey, we re just trying to get more people to read your stuff at a quicker load time. nothing else nothing to see here. and on the publisher side they wanted their readers to know that they weren t all going to be quizzes. the new york times, ,, ,, national geographic, all of these publications put out very long cabal j journalism pieces with the exception of buzz feed to say, look we haven t changed at all. but what everyone knows watching this we ve got to look a lot longer than a weak to see if all of the fears of all of these agreements is really going to come true. i m skeptical, i think this is a chance for mark zuckerberg to turn it into one of the world s best news sites. but if you re the new york times or a lesser publication
but in a week or two we will be on a different can israel that no one can predict. it has been a long time since he has been on the campaign trail. over a decade. and it is starting to show. some are using this as a chance to relitigate iraq and talk about the anger many of them felt about george w. bush s decision and the republicans are saying it is clear new if you knew now what you know you would not have invaded. i hope to get president obama who called senator war en elizabeth, a terrible slight but we are out of time. i remember senator boxer upset because a brigadier general called her ma am, rather than senator. next, verizon gobbles up aol and facebook cut as daily with new york times and nbc and