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2005-02-08 |
Actual headline featured in Google News' top U.S. stories section: Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department On a somewhat related note, I received the following e-mail from Google News recently that might be of interest to other bloggers wondering what the criteria are for inclusion as Google News sources: Hi Michelle, By coincidence, reader Patsy Griffiths alerts me that Charles Johnson at the indispensable Little Green Footballs received a similar turndown from Google News: Hi Charles, Glad to know I'm in good company, but as Charles points out, Google News' criteria are rather odd: I replied, pointing out that LGF has become rather well-known for a story that was not "from an outside source"—Bush Guard Documents: Forged—and offered to give them links to numerous other original pieces we've published. Our first request received a reply in less than an hour. So far there's no response to our second request. Yes, and especially so when you see that LGF is excluded from Google News sources while uruknet.info, the nutball news outlet that labeled Alberto Gonzales a "war criminal" and that publishes propaganda reports from Saddam Hussein's legal team, gets top Google News headline treatment. Something's definitely screwy. In my letter, Google News said "we do not include sites that do not have a formal editorial review process." Is the presumption that group blogs have a formal editorial review process because they are run by more than one person, but that an individual blog is incapable of satisfactory self-editing? If an individual blog does investigative reporting or publishes original documents, as LGF has done and as this blog occasionally does, is the "formal editorial review process" requirement waived? Why is Democratic Underground a Google News source, but not LGF? Why is a blog that recycles gossip and drinking games a Google News source, but not this blog? Got something to say about all this? Send your comments to source-suggestions@google.com |
Posted by:Anonymoose |
#7 Lol, DB! Wonkette, the #2 skank in America, calling anyone else a skank is waay funny. Her literal butt-buddy Washingtonienne is #1, of course, in case you were wondering... |
Posted by: .com 2005-02-08 6:31:34 PM |
#6 RC, you mean it's not news when Wonkette calls the Bush twins "skanks" 10 times in 2 sentences? /sarcasm off |
Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-02-08 5:11:58 PM |
#5 C'mon. Get happy. |
Posted by: eLarson 2005-02-08 3:45:05 PM |
#4 Is the Partridge Family next? Noooooooo... |
Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-02-08 2:46:50 PM |
#3 Oliver Willis and others on the Soros payroll count as the "Archies", IMHO. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-08 9:38:00 AM |
#2 Bad business RC, that means the Archies of bloggerdom are right around the corner. |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-02-08 9:34:22 AM |
#1 It's their inclusion of Wonkette that annoys me. She's a nothing, created out of whole cloth in order to give journalists a "safe" blogger to call upon. Wonkette is the "Monkees" of blogging. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-08 9:00:15 AM |