There was no information on the legislation, no comments, no opinions. It was simply a brief article from a Minnesota TV station’s site saying who voted for and against. Being from Baltimore and not knowing any of the named Representatives, I question why this was put in the U.S. news category, especially on the top of the front page.
I also came across two links which lead to “you must sign up to read this article” sites. Of course I’ll never use these sites again so I’m not going to sign up.
Now, I think Google News isn’t moderated but it still isn’t a good excuse. It’s becoming less reliable every day. Some headlines are so mundane and unimportant it makes me wonder how it reached such a high spot on the site, and some sights are so blatantly bias or unappealing I don’t see how they expect the average joe to go to the link.
I think Google news is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It’s been 6 months at least since I’ve even bothered looking at other online papers (well, directly anyway; you know what I mean). And it’s been 2 years since I’ve picked up a newspaper or watched the news on tv.
Google News would rule more if they could put the sites they feature in some sort of directory or something where the homepage of the paper can be searched for by users.
At the bottom of the Google News page are four hyperlinks. The fourth, News Resources brings up a list of international news agencies. I do not know how close to exhaustive it is regarding the agencies that Google searches on their News page. Google notes that it is incomplete in their disclaimer: