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Google Does the Bare Minimum to Keep Industry It Destroyed on Life Support

Regardless of surging guests and readership as coronavirus helps to keep folks in their homes and on the internet, the media layoffs and pay cuts merely keep coming. Now, proper right here to keep away from losing journalism in its hour of need, Google has offered the Journalism Emergency Reduction Fund to “deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally.” OK, Google—this support fund is a drop inside the bucket when put next to the cash the company has raked in thru the years while serving to to gut publishers left and right kind.
Despite surging traffic and readership as coronavirus keeps people in their homes and on the internet, the media layoffs and pay cuts just keep coming. Now, here to save journalism in its hour of need, Google has launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to “deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally.” OK, Google—this relief fund is a drop in the bucket compared to the cash the company has raked in over the years while helping to gut publishers left and right.

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Author: Gizmodo

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