MediaNews, Belo to Follow Murdoch on Google Pullback?
Two more newspaper chains are echoing News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch’s rumblings about blocking content from Google’s search index.
In interviews reported by Bloomberg staffers Greg Bensinger and Brian Womack, executives at MediaNews Group, the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher, and A.H. Belo, publisher of The Dallas Morning News and Providence (R.I.) Journal, are planning to block Google’s search engine from some content.
MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton said Google News will be blocked from accessing some content when it erects paywalls at the Web sites of some of its Pennsylvania and California newspapers next year.
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