Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating Google
tech.yahoo.com
tech.yahoo.com
The Prime Minister here owns 3 tv channels and somehow more or less controls RAI's other 3 national channels, and they investigate Google...
So that ridiculousness is worth investigation, sure.
On other hand, I don't see why newspapers would object aggregating their articles into google news. Google news is all about links to the newspaper sites; it's a source of clicks, not a way to steal content.
Although I'm wondering why companies even have a say in it. Isn't the aggregation involved fair use? If I start my own news aggregator do I have to ask publishing companies permission? I feel like I should be able to just aggregate them whether they like it or not.