Some dude in the LA Times thinks Google should buy a newspaper:
It’s only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself as a portal, leapfrogging over those that treat news updates as a commodity.
Mickey Kaus disagrees and lists two good reasons why not, concluding:
I’ll invest kf’s retained earnings elsewhere, thank you!
Professor Bainbridge calls it a provocative business plan.
I have one word for them:
AOLTimeWarner
