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Re: Hacking Google News?
I think where my unease comes from is that, in traditional journalism, somewhere there's an editor making decisions, one person, with the capability of ethical success (and failure) in deciding what is or is not important. What Google News has is a sort of bastard child of democracy and market forces--code that makes a popularity rating of stories from commercial newssites. An unpopular story one editor thinks is vitally important--the Tuskegee experiment comes to mind--doesn't bubble up under this model. There are responses to this message:
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