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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a harsh warning for newspapers wanting to remove content from Google

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a harsh warning for newspapers wanting to remove content from Google ...

Since the news does not add significantly to the "quality of life" for most people, these sort of arguments are all nonsense anyways. Those who find pleasure in reading "news" will do it even if it costs some. Those who see that there really is no value in news in general will stop reading, unless the news media change what they produce as "news" to be much more meaningful to each person's life experience. Those who produce "the news" have been feeding us enough of their propaganda over the years, and none of it has actually improved much of anyone's life experience on the whole. So if they do not change what they produce they will soon dissolve and that would be just fine in my view.
There does not seem to be any more of what we used to call "Free Press". Everything seems to be skewed towards sensationalism or political pandering. The ordinary citizen is taken for granted and the news media feed us what they deem is important for us to know. What nonsense.
My advice would be to stay away from the "news". It is mostly "olds" and provides nothing "value-added" to one's life experience. They keep pumping out the same old clichés, never putting useful information on the front page, only what "sells". They fail to educate the public in meaningful ways and often do not do enough critical research to question what "the experts" have said.
Sometimes what ordinary people do and say proves to be more factual and useful than what the so-called experts say. In general, they have fostered an environment to induce the public to believe what the "establishment" has deemed "useful" for the "general good".
The "BIG BROTHER" concept is alive and well and a "falsely" educated public is ready to "consume" what is put before them!