Newspaper association seeks Google's help in assisted suicide
Good Morning Silicon Valley

Quote: "The irony is that these search engines exist, largely, because of the traditional news and content aggregators and profit at their expense." No, no, no. The irony is that you late-to-the-game, old-media relics still exist, at least in part, thanks to the traffic news aggregators send to you (see "meta name="AFP IDIOTS" content="noindex,nofollow"" and "If you twits would rather we didn't send high-value referrals to your subscription service, then so be it"). You were disintermediated long ago, and ill-conceived efforts like these will do little to help.