Google News, Censorship or Responsible Journalism?

MSTCrow5429 writes to mention an article published by WorldNetDaily attacking the policies and actions of Google News. The author takes issue with the practice of removing sites that offer very frank discussions about radical Islam and terrorism as "hate speech." Several sites have complained about removal including The Jawa Report, MichNews, and most recently The New Media Journal. In the termination email to The New Media Journal Google cited several stories as objectionable in order to further explain the action.

Definition Of Irony:

[gowen]

World Net Daily pushing for accurate and unsensational news reporting.

The only good thing I can see about it...

[Engineer-Poet]

is that it might be a good mirror to the similar hypocrisy of Faux News.

Islamic violence and hate is a fact. News organizations censor facts at the risk of their credibility.

Google has lost half the country's respect.

[Anonymous Coward]

Whether you like them (us) or not, American Conservatives are here and we are upset by Google's actions.

Sure, us "evil" conservatives are not as concerned with global warming or the plight of the poor insurgents as liberals say we ought to be. But our concern is great for things like our children's future, our country's continuing guiding light in freedom and democracy, and in our nation's ability to combat radical islam.

What would America be if noone cared to keep it up and defend it against the flood of ever-new ideas like communism, fascism, and islamism?

Basically, these blogger are conservatives. Sure they are right-wing, but does that make their speech irrelevant? Google links to Al Jezera, you see their screeds all the time - including very pro-terrorist editorials. You know, the ones that call terrorists martyrs, call America responsible for 9-11, and calling for Israel's immediate destruction.

And yet, when we conservatives point out that Google links to the Islamist side as news, and not the anti-Islamist side... we are called irresponsible. So Google is being "responsible" by showing one half of a very emotional topic.

Fair is fair - maybe us conservatives will consider google news to no longer be news. How would Google News like to lose half its readership?

Dis-heartening though it may sound to liberals, you cannot have it both ways. Google News cannot simply pick and choose liberals and terrorists to listen to without getting news from drudge and jawa as well. That's called bias, "liberal bias", and we conservatives are pretty sick of it.

Re:blog != news

[mwvdlee]

since when did I commission Google to tell me what I should hear and what I shouldn't hear?

Ever since you chose to use their site to find news.