Jarvis: Australian proposal is 'blackmail by Rupert Murdoch'
Jarvis: Australian proposal is 'blackmail by Rupert Murdoch'

Jeff Jarvis says Rupert Murdoch’s lobbying led the Australian government to propose making tech companies pay for news.

“If anybody should pay anybody, the publishers should be paying the platforms for the value that they get,” Jarvis says.

He also talks about an American hedge fund’s planned takeover of Tribune Publishing.