Breaking news: old media doesn't understand new →

Few things to me are more vital than journalism practiced according to high standards. Simply put, Google could do much more to protect this public trust: Offer support to journalism education and professional groups dedicated to truth seeking and time-honored ethical values. And assist newspapers directly, just as I think it’s time for newspapers to band together to sue to protect content.

Neil Henry may be a journo professor at UC-Berkeley, but he clearly doesn’t understand how journalism on the internet works. He blasts Google News for “provid[ing] more news every day, free of charge no less!” But all Google News does is provide links to existing content on — wait for it — newspaper sites. They don’t write any news themselves! Doesn’t Marketplace have any fact checkers? They need to learn some (in Henry’s words) “time-honored ethical values” and not deal in such “biased rants.”