Newspaper executive Peter Wright has slammed big tech for secretively developing and changing algorithms for news distribution without giving the industry any indication whatsoever of what they are doing. Wright of DMG Media, which is the parent company of The Daily Mail, was testifying before the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee Tuesday.

He accused companies like Google and Facebook of ‘monopoly behaviour’ as they seek to seize ‘all the power’ in online news and advertising.

Radio broadcasters of the United States are up in arms at what they declare to be an organized move to discredit commercial broadcasting as it exists in this country and to cause it to suffer in comparison with the British Broadcasting System.

Prime movers in this plot, say the broadcasters, are the same newspaper interests that have continually sponsored adverse legislation at Washington and that are continually trying to throw a monkey wrench in the broadcasting show, the alleged reason being that broadcasting is more and more becoming a competitive menace in the advertising field.

Teamed up with the newspaper interests are said to be a faction of professional office-holders in the national capitol with an eye to soft bureaucratic berths, with these two carefully pushing a group of diluted educators into the foreground.

The thing that has aroused the broadcaster's ire is a book compiled by E. C. Buhler, director of Forensics, University of Kansas, entitled "American versus the British System of Radio Control", said by the broadcasters to be part of a plan to undermine broadcasting on a large scale. This alleged piece of propaganda is supposed to go hand in hand with a move to inaugurate school debates throughout the land on the same subject, "American versus British System of Radio Control."

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