Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion
1:30 pm
Dr. Eileen Culloty:
Inevitably, that is going to be what happens. It is not just a national media issue. There is also the local media. We want vibrant and diverse local media as well. The Australians engaged in a bargaining system where they forced the tech companies to bargain with news media. That appeared to be quite successful but the tech companies were just pulling away from news altogether so that model is not going to work elsewhere but there has to be something more drastic done. I would suggest that there is one group of companies that have made crazy and unprecedented amounts of money from this system and we have a democratic need for news. The two go together.
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