# $250M from Google ain’t gonna cut it: can journalists get paid? w/ Matt Pearce

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Published: 2024-09-21T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal might have just made it worse. Counterintuitive, but Matt Pearce (ex LA Times) has a pretty compelling argument. We talk about this, and AI, and a bunch of other stuff. Keep in mind that this is a pretty complicated topic, and there are some other viewpoints on this. For example, there’s this opposing stance: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-california-journalism-preservation-act-would-do-more-harm-than-good-heres-how-the-state-might-better-help-news/ And on the other hand, there's Matt summarizing the situation, where he says 'hardly anyone won, except Google': https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-into-googles-shady-and And also this: https://mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-iron-gavin-newsom-may-have There’s also Matt’s big spreadsheet on astroturfing, which we mention only briefly: https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/californias-sb-1327-and-the-big-tech You can find Matt Pearce at his newsletter, which I highly recommend: https://mattdpearce.substack.com Anyway, this is something a lot of people probably won’t even be aware of, because it’s a really boring topic. But I think this is going to be playing out repeatedly, soon. Stay in tune.

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