There's a second article about Google News in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/technology/internet/08google.html?th&emc=th

No one would use on any search engine, whether Yahoo or Ask.com, at all if there weren't News to read on the web; don't the web sites people click through to read deserve credit from for bringing people to the search engine, where they read ads?

Search engines need content; search engines make more money from ads than web sites do; therefore serach engines should share ad income with content providers.

Why doesn't a newspaper deserve royalties for a click through to their site? It's as easy to do as it is for Google Books to pay authors.