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Self Destructive Newspapers

September 23rd, 2006 by Dan Gillmor

In Belgium, Google is prohibited from even linking to newspaper content. See this story in the International Herald Tribune.

It’s beyond idiotic for the newspapers to do this. Google is sending them customers.

No wonder the newspaper business is going in the tank. It has leaders who can’t understand fundamental reality.

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