The New York times is participating in a campaign against Americas top tech companies. I don't know what their goal is, but no good will come off it. Google is one of our strengths, not one of our weaknesses.
Genghis Khan was one of Mongolia's strengths. Standard Oil was one of 19th century America's strengths. An empire can be great and still stifle good things. It's hard to know what we're missing.
They really buried the lead.
* Tech companies' role in 2016 election interference (agents buying ads, trolls)
* Tech companies' impact on journalism (Google News, decline in subscriptions, shift in advertising)
The first one is explicit, and they have every right and responsibility to hold it up to the light, given its seriousness.
The second one is a more of a speculation about their motivations. Newspapers are clearly frustrated -- how much does it factor into NYT's recent trend of aggressive coverage of tech & social media?