Newspapers’ ‘frenemy’ Google, the debate continues
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 10 April 2007 at 14:31
Tags: Agence France Presse, Chicago Tribune, Google, Google News, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Company
Google maybe making peace with the wires, but America’s latest newspaper mogul is not a fan. The new owner of Tribune newspapers, Chicago property magnate Sam Zell, reignited the old Google-as-kleptomaniac topos when he told students at Stanford University:
“We have a situation today where effectively the content is being paid for by the newspapers and stolen by Google, etcetera.”
He later added: “If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?” Not very.”
