It's newspaper billionaire versus tech billionaires as the man who would buy the Tribune Company (and dump the Cubs as soon as possible) tells the newspaper industry that Google rips off their content.
Papers Get It Wrong About Google
Some people are never happy. Google is paying AP, AFP, and other organizations for the right to do online what anyone else can do under
Google doesn't directly monetize Google News with ads. The argument has been made that they drive so much traffic to newspapers that they get the opportunity to sell them on AdSense, which by Google's financials pays the majority of money made from those clicks back to the site publishers.
So let's test the theory. Let's suggest to Google that they shut down Google News for three months. That will drop Google News links to newspapers from appearing
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