[LINK] google agreement with wire services

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:13 +0200 3/9/07, Kim Holburn wrote:
>This seems to me huge news, representing a major change in how we 
>are going to get news in the future and with a large effect on 
>newspapers.

Have you noticed the increased proportion of broadsheet articles that 
are direct lifts from AAP et al. lately?  The economics of newspapers 
is changing, and geniune journalism is getting squeezed a lot 
thinner.  We did talk about such things over a decade ago, as one of 
the many consequences of the Internet.  And now we have to cope with 
the consequences.


>>  A fascinating announcement from Google about an arrangement with 
>>four of the world's major wire services that will see their content 
>>featured more prominently on Google News. As far as I can tell, 
>>this deal has one major loser: namely, the thousands of newspapers 
>>that use content from those services, and are now going to see that 
>>traffic disappear.
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