The Chicago News Cooperative, a nonprofit news organization that provided news to The New York Times and tried to compete online with The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Sun-Times, will suspend operations the week of Feb. 26, its editor, James O'Shea, said.
If the group succeeds, it would unseat ITN, which has provided news to the network since its creation nearly half a century ago.
The chief said the charges against Ms. McDowell did not merit the attention they had received; he provided news articles of several other cases, including three in Connecticut, in which parents faced similar charges of fraud and larceny.
MSNBC, for example, flashed the words "breaking news" above a bulletin from Fort Campbell, Ky., that read, "The 101st Airborne Division is known as 'The Screaming Eagles.' " ) Frontline access provided news as well as powerful imagery.
Google said it provided news organizations' Web sites with 100,000 clicks a minute, every one of which "offers a business opportunity for the publishers to show ads, win loyal readers and sell subscriptions".
The firm, Community Rights Counsel of Washington, said it would file ethics complaints against the judges today, and it provided news groups with advance copies of the complaints, which are to be filed with the courts of the three judges.
