The managing editor of the Wall Street Journal has slammed news aggregation sites as “parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet.”
WSJ bigwig Robert Thompson told media in Australia last week that news sites are unhappy at having to finance content which is taken, without payment, by aggregators like Google.
“There is a collective consciousness among content creators that they are bearing the costs and that others are reaping some of the revenues – inevitably that profound contradiction will be a catalyst for action and the moment is nigh,” he told The Australian.
