The bias is obvious in how this article is dripping with resentful tone and constant privacy paranoia. However, it was worth the read, if only for the closing line:
"I feel better for a minute, until I realize that the only reason he knew that [journalists weren't] so easily [replaced] is that Google had been looking into how to replace [journalists]."
It's an opinion piece by a professional polemicist.
Beneath these articles is the assumption that Google is making lots of money off of newspaper articles posted online. I don't think this is right. If anyone should be cutting the newspapers a check it should be Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News etc. But just like every blog and pony show on the internet the newspapers run ads alongside their stories and they release their content freely to get views. It is hard to have any sympathy.