That isn’t what Google News does. Google News takes a snippet and links to the full story, the equivalent of, say, taking the type signatures from a library and then linking to the library.
I've always thought the riskiest part of Google News are the tiny thumbnail images used to illustrate each story section. I wonder if they pay for those; I think they might.
Thats probably the difference that explains the different reactions. At the end of the day, Google News gave traffic to publishers websites. Copilot is very different.