Alice Marshall from TechnoFlak writes in the comments here that CMP has stated that they are not blocking Google News from scraping their sites (as widely reported yesterday) for items to add to their service, and that it was some sort of mistake or oddity.
Dan Gillmor has more, including a note from a CMP editor in chief Fredric Paul, confirming that their sites only block links from competitors, not news aggregators. Paul says “we’re not just old media, and we’re not completely clueless.”
