DISQUS

Martin Stabe: Is Google News biased?

  • Waatching Them, Watching Us · 4 years ago
    Bias is in the eye of the beholder.

    Try following some topics using the

    http://www.newsnow.co.uk

    news aggregator,which claims to be

    "Automatically searching 20188 news sources every 5 minutes"

    It is very instructive to watch the same "story" obviously based on a public relations press release or briefing or leak, being repeated, word for word, by many "sources affiliated with old-media companies", often without attribution.

    "Non-traditional news sources" like blogs do seem to add more comment or analysis to these same stories if they pick up on them.