April 11, 2006
Google News Promoting Terrorist Media
Al Manor is designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a terrorist organization. Why then does Google News use al Manor as a "news" source? If al Qaeda had a "news" arm, would Google News carry that as well? And by promoting al Manor on their website, isn't Google in violation of federal law?
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As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says over at the Counterterrorism blog:
Reasonable minds can differ about the relative merits of MichelleMalkin.com, Little Green Footballs and Democratic Underground for inclusion in Google News [and I would add, The Jawa Report]. But the inclusion of al-Manar -- itself a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, and known for its unrelenting support of terror against Americans and Israelis -- is simply indefensible.Indeed.
Update: In a roundabout way (via Blogfather Charles, and Blogsister Michelle) I find this excellent post at Atlas Shrugs discussing the ins and outs of it.
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The facts speak for themselves.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 11, 2006 02:00 PM (0yYS2)
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Guys...
Google used to post DemocraticUnderground on their "News" site as well.
Its no mystery that Google employees have a leftward slant. We all know the "Miserable Failure" GoogleTrick.
Posted by: mrclark at April 11, 2006 08:49 PM (3dlFp)
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Mr Clark. You can still type in "failure" and Google's first return is GWB's biography. You can't tell me there is anything in their "pecking order" that would do that. It's hard coded. The only good thing is that the sub-return under that is Carter's bio and then we have the slob Michael Moore. I would venture to guess those were thrown in there for the sake of plausible deniability. Google has proven to be far too willing to control information.
Try typing in "flip flop" You'd think you would get at least one hit on John Kerry on the first page. But no. You get three on Bush. I tried at one time to search "bush gear" to see what kind of Bush paraphernalia or GOP paraphernalia was out there and every return for five pages was all anti-Bush. Every.single.one.
Google is a monster.
Posted by: Oyster at April 12, 2006 06:16 AM (YudAC)
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