Century Foundation asks Google to pay for content

Kudos to Peter Osnos of The Century Foundation for connecting the dots in his piece: "The Platform: make Google pay."

• Mr. Osnos asks the pertinent question: Now that Google has conceded the principle that infomation is not free in its $125m settlement with authors/publishers, why don't newspapers and magazines insist on getting paid for their content?
• It's a thought-provoking piece read -- I recommend it. 

Mr. Osnos' central thesis becomes even more important when you consider that Mr. Schmidt recently suggested to advertising executives that they should consider if the business model for journalism should become a not-for-profit model!

What many in the journalism industry do not appreciate is that Google is quietly cheering on the demise of modern journalism and Big Media so that it can be replaced by citizen journalists that will of course use their platform predominantly through, Blogger, YouTube, and Google Knol.

• Google believes it can provide anyone and everyone a more efficient digital content platform than anyone else.
• Apparently Google's real mission is to organize all the producers of the world's information -- to work for Google!