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Krishna Bharat, Google’s inventor of Google News service, says in Guardian Unlimited:
“New technology has always changed the face of journalism. The market is efficient and whatever brings the most value to readers will be the new technology of choice. We all want readers to have the best experience.”
He says the Internet provides opporunities for [...]

“The ‘Public trust’ aspect of newspapers is a bloated, facile and ultimately incoherent basis for running a newspaper,” or so argues Mark Alan Hughes, at Philly.com.
Adding:
The notion that a newspaper is a public trust derives from desperation. When a big city has only one newspaper, it becomes necessary to protect it with the veil [...]

This from an update, opinion piece in Sunday’s New York Times about Net Neutrality:
“Forces favoring a no-fee Web have been gaining strength. One group, Savetheinternet.com, says it has collected more than 700,000 signatures on a petition. Last week, a bipartisan bill favoring net neutrality, sponsored by James Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, and John Conyers Jr., [...]

This essay, opinion piece in The New York Times by Matt Bai, which is also a good backgrounder on the upcoming YearlyKos Convention in Las Vegas, contends that:
…politics, like dating, is as much about the experience as it is about the winning or losing. Whether we’re talking about the reformers of the progressive era [...]

First this from a News.com story:
Apple Computer suffered a setback in its effort to plug an internal leak, after a state appeals court ruled that the computer maker can’t immediately get its hands on records of who may have contacted an Apple enthusiast site with details on an unreleased product.
It adds:
The court’s ruling is [...]