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Interpreter: In his address to the Lowy Institute Media Award dinner earlier this month, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson took umbrage with Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, which he termed “distributionists.” Now, in a letter to the Australian newspaper entitled “Google hates piracy too,” Google Australia head Maile Carnegie objected to Thomson’s distinction between user-generated content and professionally generated content: “Yhe digital divot he describes positions user-generated content against what he calls premium content. But his definition of premium content seems admirably simple: anything produced by a traditional news organization. Might I suggest a broader definition?”