jecasc - 8:32 pm on Aug 29, 2012 (gmt 0)

what if i search for something local... if google can't include stories from local and regional papers then that is going to completely mess up google's universal SERPs

But they could ALREADY remove their content from Google since Google is following the robots.txt standard and try to negotiate payment for inclusion. But they can't because of the competition and - because there is no money to share.

There are simply not enough ads for their content. There are close to no ads for news - not for global, national or local news.