Google CEO Worried About Decline of Investigative Reporting

3 Minute Ad Age: July 31, 2008

Produced by Hoag Levins
Published: July 31, 2008

Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt is worried about the state of investigative reporting.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The declining state of investigative reporting in American newspapers and other traditional media worries Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In his stage appearance at the recent Ad Age Madison & Vine conference, he surprised many with his lament that investigative journalism was fading along with the newspaper industry that once championed it. He cited thin journalism from the long war in Iraq as proof of the problem.

4 Comments

By jkantor1 | St. Petersburg, FL July 31, 2008 08:36:46 am:

The reason we have "The war" in Iraq (THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AFTER THE LIBERATION) is due entirely to so-called journalists spreading terrorist propaganda and liberal hypocrisy at every possible moment.

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By boakes | CHICAGO, IL July 31, 2008 10:30:01 am:

I hope others see the irony here. Google's "Google News" page is one of the reasons newspapers can't afford to hire those journalists. He fills his pages with "free" content from other sites and wonders where the reporters are going? C'mon.

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By Jenniferwriter | KANSAS CITY, MO July 31, 2008 11:58:13 am:

The first comment is absolutely correct. I haven't even watched the segment but my immediate reaction was exactly the same. It's Google's dissemination of "free" content, mostly cribbed from newspapers, that is largely responsible for killing our industry. Go figure.

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By Jenniferwriter | KANSAS CITY, MO July 31, 2008 02:52:44 pm:

An addition to my previous comment - as one of my colleagues points out, and he's absolutely correct, the newspaper industy itself has been its own worse enemy by just sitting by and allowing this to happen.

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