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- ncsumetalhead, on 02/19/2008, -40/+95and we all wonder why Ron Paul wants us out of the UN.
everybody knows it's corrupt.
nobody wants to come to terms with it.
it's pathetic - inactive, on 02/19/2008, -14/+67do no evil ?
- HappyScrappy, on 02/19/2008, -3/+52Inaccurate. He's only been pulled from Google News, not from Google search. Google has been pulling blogs (esp. crank blogs) from their news sources after a couple embarrassing instances of people manipulating blogs to get false news to the top of the Google News query returns.
- wowmacnut, on 02/19/2008, -28/+72From FoxNews, so I don't believe it ...
- FritzKatz, on 02/19/2008, -14/+53The Soviets would just alter all the photographs and reprint the history books when they wanted to wipe a person's memory out.
- DeFex, on 02/19/2008, -20/+58Fox news. inaccurate.
- neocognitism, on 02/19/2008, -21/+59liberal fascism. Would someone try and define that for me?
- nblsavage, on 02/19/2008, -15/+43Please, the guy probably tried to game Google and they smacked him for it. If Google was determined to wipe out right-wing sites they'd start with LGF.
- Serphyas, on 02/19/2008, -15/+40Did Diggers seriously let a Fox News piece get to the front page, let alone an inaccurate and biased one? Now I've seen everything.
- dogfood, on 02/19/2008, -5/+26It's not like he's being removed from Google. They're just not indexing him in the news section because "his writing is clunky, his methods unorthodox (and often highly annoying) and his news judgment sometimes more than a little off the mark."
- fredgarvin1138, on 02/19/2008, -6/+27Wait, what?
I just did a Google news search and Inner City Press still shows up in the results... - oxphantomxo, on 02/19/2008, -17/+37I just Googled innercitypress and found it buried, inaccurate.
- alainb, on 02/19/2008, -7/+26i think you got that confused with yahoo, dude.
Google hasn't been involved with the chinese blogger thing. They did launch their own censored version of google. They don't help prevent access since the results are already censored. Google's position that exposure to their tools, and superior search algorithm that could potentially surface pro-democratic information despite key-word black-lists can help the Chinese. - alainb, on 02/19/2008, -24/+43Most likely its just the search algorithm doing its thing. Just because someone's search results gets bumped down doesn't mean that their OMG GOOGLE CONSPIRCY!!!
geez, has anyone even did a google search on this guy? Plenty of results came up.
/buried for inaccurate. I get plenty of google results about this guy and his work. - VinceNoir, on 02/19/2008, -7/+25Hah! Hahaha! Hohohoho!!! HO HO HO HO!!!! Hee hee hee hee hee hee!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! "liberal fascists"? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!! Oh stop!!!! It hurts!!!!
- exgiexpcv, on 02/19/2008, -14/+30" . . . Liberal fascists"?! Oh, wait, Faux noose. Never mind.
- thinman1189, on 02/19/2008, -11/+27Wow, how the hell did this get to the front page? Buried as being total *****. I couldn't make this ***** up if I wrote for a soap opera.
- TygerKrash, on 02/19/2008, -9/+24Fox. Buried.
- QuantumBios, on 02/19/2008, -7/+22http://www.innercitypress.org/
- Tiak, on 02/19/2008, -1/+15Interestingly enough, they have no problem listing stories about how they dropped him.
- minoss, on 02/19/2008, -2/+16Google is simply playing by the rules if they want access to China.
- Barbosa, on 02/19/2008, -1/+15FTA: "Though his writing is clunky, his methods unorthodox (and often highly annoying) and *his news judgment sometimes more than a little off the mark*, Lee has hit his share of bull's-eyes and became an outlet for whistleblowers inside the U.N."
You cannot have judgment that is "more than a little off the mark" and expect to be taken seriously. If he truly was a friend of the whistleblower he would be careful not to be off the mark more often than not. You guys can't just push agenda driven ***** through, it must be at least be factual to make an impact outside of your own small audience. Try again please. - inactive, on 02/19/2008, -7/+21I can google that dude's name and his news just fine. Maybe the reason his titles does not hit the Google News front page is because his writing is mediocre? Foaming at the mouth bloggers pulling stunts for attention is getting old real quick, there comes a time when people get tired of hearing you lamenting.
- shark72, on 02/19/2008, -1/+15Lots of people have misunderstood what's happening here. The summary is written to imply that his site has been removed from the Google search engine. This is NOT correct. Not hardly.
His site is no longer featured in GOOGLE NEWS. I'm guessing that many people haven't ever taken a look at Google News. It's at http://news.google.com and it's not a general-purpose search engine. On the contrary, it finds news from about 4,500 news sources -- a fraction of the news sources available on the planet.
Reading between the lines, it appears that this fellow's web site is a bit of a crackpot publication. Nothing wrong with crackpots -- God bless 'em, and some of the biggest news events of the century may have first been covered by the crackpots. But it's within the charter of Google News to only include news sources which they see fit, and the crackpot pubs are likely not the best candidates for inclusion. - pintomp3, on 02/19/2008, -3/+15OMG, how did you find it? fox news said it was vanished! it looks like you had to go back and pull up the 1995 version of the page.
- d3lta, on 02/19/2008, -9/+21RTFA... His news website no longer appears in Google News
- g30ph, on 02/19/2008, -1/+13The US keeps hitting the snooze button. It's already 12:30 in the afternoon and we were supposed to wake up at 7:30 AM.
- FreakyT, on 02/19/2008, -2/+14I sure do hate those liberal fascists.
- tomek77, on 02/19/2008, -10/+21Wake up people. The source of this is FOX NEWS. It´s not like they have a history if making up lies out of thin air...
- skyshock1, on 02/19/2008, -5/+16Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole.
Notice this is the polar opposite of Libertarianism (a branch of conservatism) in US politics. So yes, Fascism and the Liberal agenda of creating and encouraging dependence on the Federal Government are very closely related - one could argue to the point where the phrase Liberal Fascism is almost redundant. - warpdesign, on 02/19/2008, -1/+12So let me get this straight: A 'news' website where the entire thing is run by basically *one guy* isn't classified as a legitimate news source by google and you people think they're evil 'Liberal Fascists'?? You know what I call a "news" website where one guy does the reporting, editing, web development and makes the coffee? A blog. It's not like they took him out of the index, he's just not on Google News. That's not the same thing as being taken off of Google. Typical Fox news reporting.
- Bobski, on 02/19/2008, -0/+11You don't get out much do you? The erasure from history, including photographs, is now well documented.
- Tiak, on 02/19/2008, -5/+16Dude... Why is everyone trusting Fox News' alarmism all of the sudden?... Along with "don't be evil" in their little list of mottos is something along the lines of "trust in the wisdom of crowds". Many people reported the stories as being crappy, and Google automatically removed them from news.google.com. The site is still indexed on Google's regular search engine...
An "online newspaper" with a single reporter is called a "blog" these days... Those probably don't belong specifically in the news search. - jezsik, on 02/19/2008, -3/+13Nope, it's more like "Don't trust the messenger? Doubt the story!"
- pintomp3, on 02/19/2008, -2/+12the author of that book was on the daily show, hilarious and sad at the same time
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide ... - pintomp3, on 02/19/2008, -2/+12“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power”. Benito Mussolini
- AzBats, on 02/19/2008, -4/+13I thought the right-wing was all about letting the private companies do whatever they want and in this case it's probably the Google News bot adjustment - not just his site but many others probably got dropped off or added even. If this site's breaking news is actually news worthy then other places will reference it and get onto Google News anyway.
- Suzilla, on 02/19/2008, -1/+10Jon Stewart interviewed Mr. Goldberg. Now THAT was funny.
- MWeather, on 02/19/2008, -7/+16You know what else is corrupt? All governmental organizations. Let's abolish them all!
- ncc74656m, on 02/19/2008, -1/+10So it's a vast left wing conspiracy now? Oy. You guys have to find better things to do with your time than post crap about some hack journalist with a site that looks like it originated in my HTML class in 2001.
Oh, I know, I'm going to be buried for one of two things, I know it. I said "...wing conspiracy" so I'm a Hillary lover (I'm not), or I said "Oy," and we all know you Republicans LOVE those liberal Jews (Actually, I'm not either).
Now I guess you'll have to bury me for raining on your parade. ::sigh:: - fallsroad, on 02/19/2008, -2/+11So a guy who isn't a news source of any validity has been removed from Google News?
And Faux News is crying about it because they share an irrational hatred of all things U.N.?
Boo ***** hoo.
Buried. - cerejota, on 02/19/2008, -1/+9Because it is a lie.
Google pulled the plug on blogs in general from google news, not the Inner City Press in particular.
So there is nothing special or specific about Inner City Press being removed and reporting it as if it were is a lie. Inner City Press is not even on google's radar.
Is that so hard to understand? Or is the foil hat and black helicopter noise canceling logical thought? - magnoliasouth, on 02/19/2008, -9/+17Another important question, which wasn't raised in this article, is what process does Google use to "review" a site as Google has claimed? Google said, "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News." Okay so who reviewed the site and who found that it could no longer be included? What reason was there to NOT include the site? Google also later said, "We acknowledged our misunderstanding ..." Misunderstanding? How exactly did they misunderstand? It's either news or it isn't. You can't misunderstand whether or not it's news.
I don't always agree with Google's politics, but I have always enjoyed their services. This greatly disturbs me that Google would be so blasé about this. It is obvious that Google needs to review their own review process, and perhaps boot out a few people who obviously fell very short. - pintomp3, on 02/19/2008, -0/+8their hate for the UN outweighs their hate for trash journalism.
- MWeather, on 02/19/2008, -6/+14In other words it only takes half as long for them to reach slaughtering weight.
- MWeather, on 02/19/2008, -1/+9Really? Find a picture of Trotsky with Stalin. I'll show you the same picture from Russian history books that has Trotsky removed.
- TheAkolyte, on 02/19/2008, -8/+16Damn them and their imposing freedoms!
- Tiak, on 02/19/2008, -1/+8Soo... As Bush obviously considers concerns of the state superior to the interests of the individuals (i.e. civil liberties) Bush is a liberal?... -.-
Libertarianism is a conservative movement, and libertarianism is the polar opposite of fascism, this does not logically say anything about liberalism.
Neoconservativism is a much larger conservative movement, currently representing a large portion of the Republican Party, and neoconservativism is most definitely not the opposite of fascism... This also says nothing about liberalism. -
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