May 24, 2006
Jawa and Google News, Setting the Record Straight
UPDATE: Slashdot picked up the story so I bumped this to the top. The crux of this post is that The Jawa Report is currently a Google News source after initially being dropped for alleged hate speech.
The Jawa Report was mentioned today in a World Net Daily column about censorship at Google News. In it, the author correctly identifies the fact that I received a letter from Google News which said, "Upon recent review, we've found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News."
The March 29th date he mentions, is also correct. But for clarities sake I just want readers to know that it was March 29th of 2005, not from this year.
Also, to be fair to Google, after an appeal from readers The Jawa Report was reinstated as a Google News source. We are currently a Google News source.
Go read the article at WND. There does seem to be a pattern at Google News of bias against right-of-center websites. But, at least in our case, there was a corrective mechanism. Somebody at Google--perhaps some one higher up the editorial chain of command-- did some further research after hearing complaints and decided that the initial 'hate-speech' accusations were unfounded.
By Dr. Rusty Shackleford at May 24, 2006 11:11 AM | | l digg this
