Story of the Year: Newspapers and the Internet - PC World

As the year winds down I've been trying to decide how to summarize it Internet-wise. But it seems to me that the continuing saga of the news business symbolizes yet another year of close-to-terminal, Internet-induced confusion for traditional businesses -- or, maybe, panic.

The anti-Google rhetoric in parts of the news business has been growing in intensity over the last year or so, and most of it seems to be parts of the news business implicitly admitting that it does not have the faintest idea of how to deal with the Internet. This puts it in about the same position as other parts of the copyright business, including movies and music...