The Media Drop

The UK’s Independent has an item that blasts Google’s news aggregation service, Google News, for “undermining those who break stories.” Is this putting too many eggs in the aggregator’s basket? Is the “exclusive” ruined by a service that seems to put the most recently updated story within a topic at the top of a search result for news on that topic? I know, I know - lots of questions. But I can’t say for sure that just because Google News has a habit of doing something that it will be the dearth of credit for whomever breaks a story first.