San Francisco Chronicle
Jon Carroll says Google doesn't know anything about the news business and probably doesn't want to know anything about it, so as an owner "it might let news people run the newspaper, which would be a refreshing change." He adds: "It would be, as I see it, sort of like McDonald's buying a lot of cattle ranches. It would be vertical integration. Google buys the groups that make the news, and then they aggregate the news. They might even assign more stories about complicated issues, because that's what some people want, and the Lindsay Lohan market is already served."
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