Snap Out of It Newspaper-Land, Google is Not the Enemy

Ah! A sensible voice arises out of the din. This is from Mark Gimein at Slate‘s The Big Money, who argues that linking and aggregators are not to blame, instead “it’s the technology behind the Web,” which allows us to consume our news a la carte making sweeping (and overpriced) subscription fees untenable: “For many years [newspaper] customers — both readers and advertisers — paid for a big package of newsprint when most folks only read a small fraction of it.