Google News accused of bias
Posted by Matthew on Saturday April 5, 2003 @04:27PM
from the vast-conspiracy=democracy dept.
Matthew writes: Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the Fox media companies including Fox News, has accused Google News of biased coverage in general and especially with regard to the U.S. led invasion of Iraq.
“Google News automatically summarizes all the English daily news websites in the world. As you all know, left leaning commie sympathizing peacenik socialists run 90% of the American news outlets. And 100% of the foreign ones. So that means that 95% of the coverage they’re searching is liberal biased. And because their algorithm for determining what goes on the front page is based on how many sites are reporting the story, Google winds up being just as left biased as the media in general. It’s pathetic and it’s got to stop. Google News should be weighting balanced coverage of the sort provided by Fox News by a factor of 100 in order to balance this slant.
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Yeah… I think the guy who writes BANANA CHAN should take over all official news scripting in North America — that guy's hilarious!
Comment by Brad Thompson — May 2, 2003 @ 4:53 pm
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I have been very alarmed and angered by media bias and when I discovered it in google as I search for truths it has really disapointed me. Why should there be political correctnes in a seach engine? Is it because of money? Fear? Inclinatio?
This is like Dr's who give up their scientific mind to become lackeys of Laboratories. Disgusting!
What is liberal about Liberals? Absolutelly Nothing, they impose the desires of the minorities on everyone, seems more like a dictatorship to me.Al Gore, does he have something to do with Google? Is that where the liberal search engine is coming from?
Truth is truth, and lies are lies, yet the liberals I have observed have a strong tendency of trying to convert lies into truth. Truly the end times are here! “Not so!” say the liberals “we shall have the new world order!” Shall that be the epitomy of all dictatorsips? Total control over people? Who cease to be humans to become as termites or even worse as programs?
Comment by Kurt Mejer — November 21, 2003 @ 4:24 am
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1) Read the “Parody or Satire?” line at the top of the page.
2) Try to stay up to date on your medication.
Comment by Matthew — December 31, 2003 @ 1:14 am
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Matthew, you are quite right- obviously a satire, with a definite message.
Kurt Mejer, try researching where “Google News” comes from, and how it is composed. It's not “Google News” at all, merely, a compilation of randomly selected articles from over 4500 sources. Now go ahead and convince me it's “biased”. A bit tough, eh?
Any more questions, take a look at http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/about_google_news.html
That should explain any doubts.
Interesting you're from the U.K. You sure must be in a majority there!
Comment by Peter — March 11, 2004 @ 11:25 pm