by Chris Jennewein Newspapers in California have long claimed that Google is stealing the news by linking to articles when people search, and are demanding payment via a pending Assembly bill. But when the alleged stealing stops — as happened Friday when Google began testing the removal of California news from search — those same newspapers were even more upset. =The Riverside Press-Enterprise editorial board called it “a shameful attempt to fend off legislation that would force the search giant to pay for the news content that fuels its business.” The headline in the San Jose Mercury News was…