GOOGLE MEDIA: One-Stop News Empire for Stories, Videos AND Letters to the Google Editor
YAY! “Original stories, from the source,” Google News announces.
While the blogosphere gleefully mocked Sam Zell when he had the gall to burst a “Google News is a publishers best friend” over inflated balloon, I countered: Google News is NOT Newspaper Driven.
Who is mocking whom now? Google continues to taunt the news media, big time, proving over and over that Google ONLY wants what is best for Google shareholders, despite a crowd-pleasing win-win-win spiel.
In the heat of the summer, Google Media has been putting the heat on news publishers, by declaring Google to be THE direct, one-stop media destination for:
1) Hosted, original reader commentary at destination Google Media in response to news stories published by third party media organizations,
2) Hosted, original news videos at at destination Google Media created by third party media organizations,
3) Hosted, Original wire news reports at destination Google Media created by third party media organizations…
Will the blogosphere AND new media continue to be duped by Google Media smoke and mirrors?
Google News IS a ruse, I said just two weeks ago, when the L.A. Times was skewered Sam Zell style for also having the gall to question the motivations of allmighty Google.
SEE Google News is a Joke: LA Times is NOT Laughing and Does USC Annenberg OJR Want Old Media Journalists to Shut Up?
The Google mission is indeed alive and well: Obtain, control AND monetize ALL the world’s information, for the good of the world, Google’s world that is.
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