To the editor: George Skelton’s column warning about Huge Tech’s theft of reports from journalists and newspapers throughout the nation, placing them out of labor and out of enterprise, and with out being punished and compelled to pay compensation, was glorious.
Fee for such theft also needs to be prolonged to those that create literature, artwork, movie, scholarship and data — and whose work can also be stolen on the market within the market by synthetic intelligence thieves.
And what about all of us who’ve our knowledge taken day by day by Google, Fb, X and others, which then promote that knowledge for substantial revenue to corporations that market their services and products on the web? We too ought to be compensated.
Sure, recompense is because of all of us. Huge Tech must pay large time.
John Wagner, Irvine
..
To the editor: My first job after I graduated from highschool in 1959 was with a startup newspaper, the Pennsville Progress in New Jersey. There, I realized firsthand what goes into reporting native information.
It has saddened me that the Progress, Penns Grove Report and Salem Sunbeam had been purchased out by a information group that now publishes little information about Salem County.
It’s the identical right here in Riverside County, and we’re all of the poorer for it.
Mary Anne Vincent, Corona
..
To the editor: I share Skelton’s issues over our shrinking nationwide press corps, and like him, I consider a powerful and free press is important to our democracy.
However earlier than Skelton finishes taking a bow on behalf of the press for forcing President Biden out of the 2024 election, I might ask him to significantly clarify why the identical requirements haven’t been utilized to former President Trump.
I’m not seeing the identical requires recusal over Trump’s egregious errors, outright lies, failure to reply questions truthfully, his calling journalists silly and nasty and simply making issues up, just like the Taylor Swift endorsement. If Biden had carried out that, think about the press response.
Trump’s conduct is duly reported, however the place is that equal judgment of fundamental potential to do the job? Is Skelton demanding Trump drop out? Is the New York Instances? This newspaper?
Skelton and plenty of others must truthfully confront the fact that they’ve let Trump skate whereas holding others to conventional requirements for our flesh pressers. Probably that has contributed to the decline in paying and constant readership.
Melissa Walsh, West Hills
