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August 8th 2007 Media

Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news

We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we’ll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we’ll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist…

We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question.

Have you ever read or viewed a MSM report about a subject in which you were actually knowledgeable that didn’t pop up at least one or two errors?

Eventually, mechanisms like this will give you the chance to respond other than burning your newspaper or tossing a bowling ball through the tube. It will be especially valuable for actual participants in the news, who are generally badly represented in terms of context and accuracy by the MSM “editing process.”

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Comments on this post:

  • acm
    August 8th, 2007 | #1

    I think the idea is that this policy guards against senseless flame wars in the comments section of news stories. Ever wonder why Yahoo! pulled the comments feature?

  • David
    August 8th, 2007 | #2

    When I was in high school, early 1980s, I asked my Dad why he didn’t subscribe to any of the news magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.). He told me that he had noticed years before that every time he read an article in one of those magazines about a subject he knew well, he always found significant errors. After a while it dawned on him the errors were probably not confined to only the subjects he knew. He saw no point in mis-educating himself, so he stopped reading the magazines. About ten years ago, he stopped reading newspapers.

  • Anonymous
    August 8th, 2007 | #3

    I get all my news from Facebook.com and DP.

  • SteveF
    August 8th, 2007 | #4

    I used to get all my news from the Weekly World News at the grocery store. (It has News in the title. Duh.) But now I guess I’ll have to switch to another source.

  • genes
    August 8th, 2007 | #5

    One of those supermarket rags is always running pictures of some actresses cellulite. Not my favorite thing to view at the checkout.

  • Lorenzo
    August 9th, 2007 | #6

    Never fear, Steve - Weekly World News is online! There’s WeeklyWorldNews/national/, WeeklyWorldNews/international/, even WeeklyWorldNews/bat-boy/. No more dirty looks from the cashier while you flip through it - it’s free online - at least, until they come up with WeeklyWorldSelect.

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