Jack Shafer of Slate attempts to get techno-hip and writes an odd parody/parable about Google and the newspaper business. Very odd. Non-sensical in every way, actually. Not really funny or insightful, it mostly makes you think he should stick to his normal political beat.
I can't even tell if he's parodying the Google nay-sayers or bolstering their Cassandra-like outcries... Maybe it's brillant after all, if you can't be certain who the joke is supposed to be on?
Nope, the real Google cynics inhabit the blogosphere and aren't as confused about technology, Microsoft and the future of newspapers...