The US is worried that if even private journalistic entities are strangled to death, then it will have to stand up a national news service like the BBC and won't be immune from the "state sponsored news" label it loves to apply to other countries.
However, Google's interest, despite being entangled with the US quite deeply, is to not spend money to save the ecosystem. Most likely, they have their own plan for this eventuality. After all, if they would be single-handedly supporting multiple news companies, why shouldn't it be its own mega-news company and keep the additional revenues?
However, Google's interest, despite being entangled with the US quite deeply, is to not spend money to save the ecosystem. Most likely, they have their own plan for this eventuality. After all, if they would be single-handedly supporting multiple news companies, why shouldn't it be its own mega-news company and keep the additional revenues?