Now you've gone and made 'em mad

Looks like this week's meeting of the Newspaper Association of America has brought out the fighting spirit in newspaper executives across the nation.

Their no. 1 beef: big business Web sites like Google that aggregate their works without actually paying for it. 

How nice of them to bring up ----- now what?

It seems a bit late for newspaper moguls who've been dealing with this issue for years to want to take action now. Not to mention that to be fair, sites like Google aren't the only ones "stealing" content, if you will. If organizations like the NYT and AP start charging highly trafficked Web sites to use their content, are they going to do the same for the small-time bloggers that sometimes cut and past chunks of news articles that clearly aren't theirs?

It's easy to say there's no reason to scold the little guy --- they're not making any money, right? But there's still that issue of copyright - if that really is the issue, of course.