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May 23, 2006
Is Left-Leaning Google Censoring Right-Leaning Websites?
Topics: BlogosphereTell me it isn't true!
... there have been complaints in the past from conservative bloggers that Google seems to have dubious requirements to be a part of its News Crawl. In February 2005, Michelle Malkin wrote of the difficulties she was having becoming part of Google News. At roughly the same time, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs also complained about not being able to curry Google's favor.Of course it is - if you are a conservative blogger, getting Google to accept you as a news source is like trying to get the New York Times to accept your local middle school newspaper as a featured column.
Google's reasoning doesn't make much sense, and then there's that little matter of evidence that its employees lean strongly to the left:
Potentially more telling, a May 15 "Washington Prowler" piece at The American Spectator disclosed a link between Google and the ultra-left wing MoveOn.org:Read more...Google has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation ["Net Neutrality"]. Some of that money has gone to an online petition drive and a letter-writing campaign, but the majority of that money is being used to fund their activities against Republicans out in the states.
Beyond this, Google appears intimately tied to former vice president and potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore. It is no secret that Gore is a senior advisor to Google, a position that garnered him a sizable number of shares according to Fox News political analyst Susan Estrich. On May 19's "The Big Story," Estrich discussed with host John Gibson Gore's connection with Google, and how the wealth generated from the shares he owns in the Internet behemoth could give him enough money to finance his own presidential campaign.
This relationship goes further. According to a recent Wired magazine article about Gore, he is extremely close to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt who "supported Gore's 2000 presidential campaign." Moreover, in April 2005, Google partnered with Gore's cable channel, Current.
Some might call that game/set/match - looks left-leaning to me!
Posted by Richard at May 23, 2006 6:18 PM
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