Lasica: Google News displays unintentional political bias
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Google News is the popular site filled with stories, headlines and photographs chosen from thousands of other news sites by a computer algorithm. No human editors are involved.
An informal analysis of Google News political coverage shows and odd kind of bias in favor of President Bush.
Guest: Journalist and blogger J.D. Lasica, a senior editor at the Online Journalism Review and author of the upcoming book Darknet.
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