Comments on: Your Constitutional right to be a Google News source http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1358 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The New Market Machines http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1358/comment-page-1#comment-39133 The New Market Machines Thu, 25 May 2006 18:04:07 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1358#comment-39133 <strong>What is News?</strong> A twist on the old gospel story: What is truth? What constitutes news? Perhaps Google could put out a list of eligible, machine-readable codes of journalistic ethics—something like the CC license—that bloggers and news organizations coul... What is News?

A twist on the old gospel story: What is truth? What constitutes news?

Perhaps Google could put out a list of eligible, machine-readable codes of journalistic ethics—something like the CC license—that bloggers and news organizations coul…

]]> By: Colin http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1358/comment-page-1#comment-39122 Colin Thu, 25 May 2006 17:53:22 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1358#comment-39122 Well, at least Google is now consistent about its policy. A couple of years ago, it removed Indymedia.org from its list of spidered sites because of a single, grossly anti-Semitic posting, even though site moderators said they had caught it themselves and removed it under their own editorial guidelines. Now that Google has a both a blog search engine and a news aggregrator, I personally wish it would make a better effort to distinguish the two. By all means, let them cross-reference them, and by all means, there are online publications that have a news mission rather than an opinion or advocacy mission. I think Google should publish clear guidelines on what they consider a news source for the purposes of their crawl. Perhaps they could put out a list of eligible, machine-readable codes of journalistic ethics that bloggers and news organizations could tag their sites with to certify that they were news-oriented rather than political marketing-oriented. That would give users and Google editors something to benchmark against when they complain about the content of this or that Google News source. I'm just tired of getting the chocolate of opinion in the peanut butter of my news ... though not necessarily vice versa. Well, at least Google is now consistent about its policy. A couple of years ago, it removed Indymedia.org from its list of spidered sites because of a single, grossly anti-Semitic posting, even though site moderators said they had caught it themselves and removed it under their own editorial guidelines.

Now that Google has a both a blog search engine and a news aggregrator, I personally wish it would make a better effort to distinguish the two.

By all means, let them cross-reference them, and by all means, there are online publications that have a news mission rather than an opinion or advocacy mission.

I think Google should publish clear guidelines on what they consider a news source for the purposes of their crawl.

Perhaps they could put out a list of eligible, machine-readable codes of journalistic ethics that bloggers and news organizations could tag their sites with to certify that they were news-oriented rather than political marketing-oriented.

That would give users and Google editors something to benchmark against when they complain about the content of this or that Google News source.

I’m just tired of getting the chocolate of opinion in the peanut butter of my news … though not necessarily vice versa.

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