Over at PressThink, Jay Rosen neatly dissects Neil Henry’s plea for reparations from technology giants.
In a posting entitled, Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class, Rosen writes of Henry:
He’s bitter about the online world and its unjust economy of news, resents but resolutely will not grok it, and he wants the people there (“online…”) to know what they’re destroying.
Anyway, Google News is good for news website, by helping to direct visitors to them. According to a Hitwise blog, 28% of visits from Google News UK go to newspaper websites.
Overall BBC News was the top recipient of referrals, getting 3.6% of Google News’ traffic, followed by 2.0% to Guardian Unlimited, 2.0% to Times Online, 1.4% to The Daily Mail and 1.0% to Sky News.
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