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Want to Know Why Newspapers Are Dying? Maureen Dowd Shows Us.

April 16, 2009
by Michael Costanza
Executive Director of Technology, Techdirt

Michael Costanza

In her recent New York Times (NYT) op-ed, Maureen Dowd takes aim at Google (GOOG), blaming it for the sorry state of the newspaper industry. Perhaps in hopes of winning people over to the newspapers’ side in the argument over how much Google should be profiting from their content, Dowd spends a lot of the article attempting to make the reader fear Google, trying to paint the company as anti-privacy and bent on “world domination.”

“But there is a vaguely ominous Big Brother wall in the lobby of the headquarters here that scrolls real-time Google searches–porn queries are edited out–from people around the world. You could probably see your own name if you stayed long enough. In one minute of watching, I saw the Washington association where my sister works, the Delaware beach town where my brother vacations, some Dave Matthews lyrics, calories Panera, females feet, soaps in depth and Douglas Mangum, whoever he is.”

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