The Facebook whistleblower revelations are rightly getting all sorts of attention lately.
But a report on Google’s problematic news grants, released at the same time by a British trade publication, should not be overlooked.
The report by Press Gazette pulled back the curtain on Google’s ballyhooed $1 billion News Showcase program, announced last October to help a news industry that it’s skimming from and suffocating at the same time.
