Newspapers: How Bad Is It?

Two things confirm how much trouble newspapers are in here. They're going after content aggregators and this sentence below ends the New York Times item.

Several days ago, the British newspaper industry asked the government to intervene on its behalf to force Google to either stop using their articles without paying for them.

Comments

[David]

Or what? The "either" requires an "or"--something the editor apparently didn't catch by the time you read that... but has now (w/o noting the correction, as is typical of the NYT and its online behavior).

[Hangtown Bob]

So, how would these newspapers react if Google filtered them and their content out of any future Google search? In other words, if they and their content became "invisible" on the web?