It’s not Google that’s killing the media.
By Mark Gimein of The Big Money
What you are reading now is an article, published by a Web site, The Big Money. One way you could have gotten to it is by going to TBM’s home page. But there’s a good chance you didn’t get to it that way. You may have gotten here by following a link from Slate, one of TBM’s partner sites. Or you may have followed a link from a blog or another news site. Or from a site that aggregates news, such as the Drudge Report. Or through a site like MSNBC.com that does a mix of both. If you happen to be reading it a few days or a month or a year after it first appeared, there is a good chance that you got to it more or less accidentally, through a search on Google (GOOG).
You’d think that by now people would have gotten used to this. But they haven’t. The last days have been big ones for link bashing. Rupert Murdoch accused Google in a speech of “stealing copyrights.” Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson called Google and other aggregators “parasites or tapeworms,” charging Google and other unnamed aggregators with the crime of “encouraging promiscuity” (managing to combine fear of Google and fear of sex, in what could be a model platform for the Republican Party in 2010).
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