Google hits back at News Corp – with a GIF of a laughing baby

Title: Google hits back at News Corp – with a GIF of a laughing baby

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/30/google-news-corp-gif-rupert-murdoch-wall-street-journal

Summary:

This article is about how Google has hit out at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in a strident attack accusing the Wall Street Journal of “inaccuracies” it also features an animated GIF of a laughing baby. Furthermore, News Corp has been a vocal critic of the tech giant’s dominant position in search, with chief executive Robert Thomson accusing it last year of being a “platform for piracy”.

Facts/Phrases:

Ø  The WSJ said Google staff had visited the White House 230 times since Obama’s inauguration compared with 20 for media group Comcast. 

Ø  Google responded that 33 of these were not employees at the time of their visit, while five were from an engineer helping to fix the government’s Healthcare.gov website.

Opinion:

In my opinion, this article is about the clash between the two major conglomerates, Google and News Corporation. The way Google’s behaviour in retaliating is associated with a laughing baby GIF.