If Google can do search and make lots of money on advertising, why can't Fox make money from advertising on their web site? I suppose they can't charge enough because they don't have millions of people going to their site. If Fox starts charging, I won't be subscribing.
I’ll defer to the bloggers. While a lot of information is disinformation, bloggers tend to do their homework, something the LSM fails to do. The blogs will only get better and more reliable than the biased press as time goes on. The scope of information gathering, confirmation and reporting will spread exponentially around the world becoming more and more reliable and newsworthy.
Simple. People use Google to locate things they want to buy. Ads that appear after a Google search for a particular product often result in sales. Google ads pay for themselves, so advertisers are willing to purchase, so Google makes money.
Visitors to the Fox website aren't going there to buy anything, they just want to read the news. Ads on a news site are annoyances, to be ignored. Social networking sites like Facebook have the same problem. People go there to meet friends and have conversations, not to purchase.
I find Amazon's "personal recommendation" ads interesting. They are targeted to specific users based on their past Amazon purchases. These days I actually want to see what Amazon thinks I should buy, because I often agree with them. I don't know how those ads are generated, but I bet they are very valuable to Amazon and its independent vendors.