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To: Sully- who wrote (14246)	12/1/2004 2:27:11 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (3) of 20773

For one I have no idea what MSM is an acronym for, but will guess: Main Stream Media. And if so, I disagree. The Main Stream Media does not have an overt left bias, it has a bias towards expediency. More folks should be forced to watch Frontline or something useful rather than the weather girl on channel 9 or Survivor or the home shopping channel. Secondly, I did not "read" wrong, I did read an article that pointed to another which made the observation. Therefore I read "right". And I said: Might be unintentional but I can't think of any rational explanation for the "Not found in Google" / "But you can find them all in Yahoo" comparison. The query in the link I provided is dirt simple. There is no reason for Google not to return these images. It may not be evidence of intentional bias, but it is clearly evidence of lack of completeness... --------------- He spoke with Krishna Bharat, chief scientist for Google News, who said he was puzzled by reports that the service has been skewing politically in one direction. "The algorithms do not understand which sources are right-leaning or left-leaning," Bharat said. "They're apolitical, which is good." Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories ojr.org

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