Google News Sucks At Reporting Atheists and Atheism In The News
by SAB on Jan.08, 2010, under Opinion
I really like Google News, it’s usually a lot like reading the Drudge-report without an allegedly closeted fedora wearing paranoid conservative madly dreaming up bombastic headlines. For example, this is what today’s headlines on “Star Trek Online” look like:
As you can see, the Star Trek Online news is mostly relevant with news about the 2009 Star Trek movie sneaking in there sometimes. Now let’s try “Atheism”:
Articles like the one I’ve highlighted here that are not so much news and basically random blog posts fill up “Atheist, Atheism” searches in Google News. Now, I obviously have no problem with people posting their opinions on blogs… but I don’t expect to see opinion blogs showing up next to New York Times articles… especially when said blog posts are often radically biased. I can’t stand biased opinion in my news to the right or left, and it seems like I get a lot of it leaning right with Atheist News via Google.
Now, Google News obviously isn’t perfect, but it does seem like stories about Atheists and Atheism end up with an unusually large skew than the rest of my Google News categories. Anyone know of some way to filter out sites, or specify “reputable news sources only”? Anybody? Anybody?
