New York Times attacks the news aggregators

The New York Times' David Carr has written quite a scathing attack on the news aggregator sector.

Writing in yesterday's paper he says as one of his solutions to the problems of the media industry

No more free ride to aggregators. Google announced that it would begin selling ads against Google News, with almost no financial accommodation to the organizations that generate that news. The book industry — of all Luddites — has extracted cash from Google, as did the wire services. Google, The Huffington Post and Newser have built their audiences and brands on other people’s labors.

adding that

Most aggregators are not promoting newspaper content; they are repurposing it to their own ends. Newspapers’ audiences are harvested and sold divorced from the content that attracted them in the first place.

The Huffington Post's