Nobody is saying this is wrong. However if journalism is so valuable then the government (so really, the people) should be subsidizing it. Passing illogical laws and putting the burden on 2-3 big tech companies makes zero sense.
Google News is operating a content + link farm by copy/pasting content from other sites. Google is pretending to be legitimate but in realty they are just as trashy. If anyone else was doing it, Google would have banned them faster than you can blink.