Google News Drops Jawa Report

LGF reports Rusty Shackleford’s excellent blog The Jawa Report has been dropped from Google News because according to Google, it contains “hate speech.”

Amazing. So because they were forced to remove National Vanguard, for Pete’s sake, a white supremacist site that everyone agrees is a racist sewer, Google News apparently will now sanitize everything—including sites that try to tell the truth about radical Islam. And all without ever disclosing how they are reaching these judgments.

Private Radio has a list generated by a script, of Google News sources for the United States. Since they’ve now dropped Jawa Report, can we assume they will also be dropping Electronic Intifada, Jihad Unspun, uruknet.info, AlJazeera.info, infoshop.org, antiwar.com, and many other hard-core Islamist and anti-American sites that feature prominently in their news search results?

They just added news sources for other countries.

Who comments Shouldn't DNC.org get dropped, since their leadership is a self-proclaimed hater of the right?

OnlyInIsrael comments If you think including the National Vanguard was bad, you should know that until a few months ago GoogleNews included the HAMAS OFFICIAL WEBSITE, Palestine-info as a news source until they got complaints about it. The hamas official website was used as a newssource there for a couple of months. It's not a one time error. It's their regular behaviour.

Luigi comments The megacapitalists who own Google used to have a wonderful news service. It wasn't much more than a year ago. They had a page chock full of every media outlet you can think of, from all over the world. You just go down the list and click on whichever one you wanted. Now that was a news service. Everything you wanted was right there. If you wanted the news of the moment you could just click on AP or CNN or FOX or whatever you wished to get your news from. Then they had to go screw it up with their liberal politcally correct editorial policy. Maybe they liked the technical challenge. Maybe they're control freaks. Personally, I see two reasons why the megacapitalists who own Google need to show how liberal they are. Either they want to open the China market, or they want to show themselves as media moguls because they think they'll get laid more often.

mojoey comments I saw an a google easter egg link off of lifehacker that shows how google indexes web pages. Maybe they use the same logic to pick news sites?