> Without their content what will Google search? Wikipedia, blogs?

I hope so. The internet was better when news was an afterthought.

> Without news content google search users will not get news context about their search queries so the search engine will lack a critical perspective and become lower quality,

News content is low quality content. It's toxic information pollution.

I wish google/youtube, facebook, reddit, etc would simply ban news company links. It would go a long way to increase quality content and lower toxicity.