Google to newspapers: Put up or shut up(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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Google to newspapers: Put up or shut up
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/google-newspapers.html
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It's funny that newspapers think search engines are the problem. The real problem, it seem to me, is that most stories of any value that I find in a Newspaper are AP wire stories - and regardless of which Newspaper or other source I go to, those stories are exactly the same. It greatly reduces my motivation to buy any newspaper as long as even one of those with AP wire stories (or any other AP story source) is free somewhere on the net. I worry about how good investigative journalism can be maintained, so am not celebrating this - but the days when so many newspapers could profit from the exact same content are over. Maybe newspapers with large enough local markets for non-AP local stories can provide enough value there to keep themselves afloat - but there are increasing alternative sources of local information, too.