Holly and Garry: Google is a media Goliath that stole our advertisers and pushed our very profession to the precipice of financial collapse. This is the view of many if not most of our colleagues in the news business. We see Google aggregating content produced by real journalists — without the costs of employing editors and reporters — while sucking up all the ads that used to subsidize newsgathering and delivery back in the 20th century. Now, as Facebook reels …
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Holly: Most winter weeknights, while Americans are cleaning up after dinner, herding the kids toward their beds, plotting to catch an episode of “This Is Us,” Garry and I sit …