Someone has to come up with that headline, the contractor in the Manitoba newsroom office is doing it.

The shooter is usually dead, should be link to the victim’s obituary comment sections instead of a local news article ?

But someone has to write those too? LLM to the rescue!

Why is asking Fangs to give an obole to local news so insulting ?

Until those articles are writing themself, they don’t.

Someone comes up with the headline, and gives it away for free. If they dont want to give it away for free, they dont have to. If they want to charge for the headline, that is fine too.

What they don't get to do is say, you must buy this headline from us, if you want it or not.

This is all beside the point because the object at issue here is links, which don't even necessarily contain content.

>Why is asking Fangs to give an obole to local news so insulting ?

It is insulting because if anything, local news should be paying FANG. They get much of their web traffic from social media and search.

They dont need the governments help to ask for money. They can simply stop letting their headlines and links be indexed. The fact is they don't want to do that because it benefits them. They could try to negotiate with GOOGLE/Meta, but GOOGLE/Meta would rather drop them than pay.

Nobody wants to pay for what they have so they have to resort to bills to force companies to buy something they would rather not have.