troels_nybo_nielsen - 6:32 am on Apr 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

>> Am I the only one who has a sense that the article isn't about Google at all, but about the fact that some people object to writers who aren't professional journalists getting their material on news sites too.

No, you're not. Depending on the angle from which you view it, the Internet is so many different things. And from one particular angle it's a fight. A fight between traditional power structure from the last couple of hundred years and people ridding themselves of that power structure. Traditional journalistic media are a part of that fight.

And some of them are desperate. Not without a reason: They are losing.

You and I and many others are more and more becoming our own journalists, both as writers and as readers. With the help of Google and other search engines.