The Lords on news aggregators…
Now, there’s a headline to get the pulse racing! paidContentUK picks up on an interesting part of the Lords report on media ownership, which says
News aggregator sites benefit on news gathering done by other organisations, but they do not invest in original content themselves. This is an issue of justifiable convern and we recommend that the Department for Culture Media and Sport should examine the effect of news aggregators and consider how their impact on news gathering might enhance their investment in news.
It’s interesting they came to this conclusion after visiting Google - who pointed out that they only take a small part of the story, and that they take no ad revenue from Google News.
Simon @ June 28, 2008