Ravings of John C.A. John Bambaneck has a piece up over at his place called Google Attempts to Silence Conservative News on the Net:

Michelle Malkin writes frequently on the bias (here, here, here, and here)

Here are some other sources.
- Threadwatch: Google Accused of Political Bias (again)
- I Hate Google: Is Google Red or Blue?
- The Buzz Blog: Google Censors Conservative Ad
- Inside Google: Google Accused of Liberal Bias

That’s what I first thought of when I read this Yahoo article on Google trying to patent a method to search on the QUALITY of news (you can read the application here)

And Gregory at the Nashif Report links to WND, here. From WMD:

WorldNetDaily.com
A conservative political action committee has charged Google with bias, saying the popular search engine rejected the PAC’s request to run an anti-Nancy Pelosi ad that had nearly identical wording to one that slammed Rep. Tom DeLay, the Republican majority leader.

Understandably, conservative pundits are up in arms over this, people are discussing dumping GMAIL and going over to yahoo or some other search engine for news and other services.

How is it that Google News considers Democratic Underground a news site … but not Free Republic?

Interestingly, I’ve tried to google up and even do a search in yahoo about Google’s bias against conservative news. Worldnetdaily has several articles up, but my computer “times out” when I try to access them, no matter where I try to access them from.

If I can find a way to get to them, I’ll post some more links to those sources.

I don’t think there’s anything more leftist than communism, lol…check out the fact here that most people in the media DO NOT identify themselves as conservatives

media bias caught on tape http://www.mediaresearch.org/videobias/vidbias.asp

media bias basics http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/welcome.asp

IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
WHAT MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA SAY ABOUT LIBERAL BIAS

Admissions of Liberal Bias

* “I thought he [former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg] made some very good points. There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I’m consistently liberal in my opinions. And I think some of the, I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now, he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too, but I think he should be more careful.”
— CBS’s 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney on Goldberg’s book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, on CNN’s Larry King Live, June 5, 2002

* “Most of the time I really think responsible journalists, of which I hope I’m counted as one, leave our bias at the side of the table. Now it is true, historically in the media, it has been more of a liberal persuasion for many years. It has taken us a long time, too long in my view, to have vigorous conservative voices heard as widely in the media as they now are. And so I think yes, on occasion, there is a liberal instinct in the media which we need to keep our eye on, if you will.”
— ABC anchor Peter Jennings appearing on CNN’s Larry King Live, April 10, 2002

* “[Journalists] have a certain worldview based on being in Manhattan…that isn’t per se liberal, but if you look at people there, they lean’ in that direction.” — Columbia Journalism Review publisher David Laventhol, as reported in “Leaning on the Media” by Mark Jurkowitz, The Boston Globe, January 17, 2002.

* “There is a liberal bias. It’s demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias. There is a liberal bias at Newsweek, the magazine I work for —- most of the people who work at Newsweek live on the upper West Side in New York and they have a liberal bias….[ABC White House reporter] Brit Hume’s bosses are liberal and they’re always quietly denouncing him as being a right-wing nut.” — Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas in an admission on Inside Washington, May 12, 1996.

The media research center has more of these quotes, in addition to quotes from members of the media who deny their bias.

From Southpark Conservatives by Brian C. Anderson:

In their economic and social policy views….journalists tend to be European-style social democrats, if not out-and-out socialists. Two-thirds, for instance, believed that government should significantly shrink the income gap between the rich and poor, and an even greater majority endorced racial preferences for blacks. Culturally, the media elites overwhelmingly embraced the 1960’s do-you-own-thing values. Nine out of ten gave a thumbs up to abortion rights, and more than half saw nothing wrong with adultery. Most were not religious. On the foreign policy front, a majority of journalists–Vietnam-haunted–viewed the United States as an exploiter of the Third World, a cause of global poverty, and an immoral squanderer of the world’s resources. We were the bad guys, as bad as the Communists we were fighting, maybe worse. The media elites, in short, belonged to what the critic Lionel Trilling famously called “the adversary culture,” expressing an “actually subversive intention” toward traditional American politics, society and values.

Said Cao @ 4:00 am | Permalink   

1. I’m continously amazed that anyone still attempts to argue that the media is NOT biased. It’s clear, obvious, and as you so eloquently pointed out, even they admit it.

   Comment by Ogre — 5/6/2005 @ 4:49 am

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2. I think it’s interesting to note that I have yet to hear a Republican complain at how Fox News is anti-liberal biased as is MSNBC in large part. As far as a company goes, Google may very well be biased in favor of the Democrats. That being said, why don’t Republicans complain in turn about the many many companies (many more than for the Democrats) who support the GOP? If you want to point out bias, what about Clear Channel? They’re one of the biggest broadcasting/advertising companies in America and they were putting up signs for Bush for free last year in several states. Why don’t Republicans complain about that? If you want to point fingers, it should be objective when it comes to something as serious as this.

   Comment by Joseph (OK Democrat) — 5/6/2005 @ 6:47 am

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3. If there weren’t a liberal bias in the traditional media, why would that nutcase need to build a filter to filter out FoxNews? Sure, I believe that the reporters on Fox tend to be more conservative, for the most part I spend more time shouting at the liberal idiots they invite on to be “Fair & Balanced”.

   And just think, if it were not for the liberal bias, our voices wouldn’t be getting as much attention as they are now. The blogsphere is growing on a daily basis. The MSM can’t say that.

   Comment by Gribbit — 5/6/2005 @ 8:36 am

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4. More Google Stupidity

   So Google won’t list the Jawa Report in their news section because it considers it a “hate” site. But they…

   Trackback by JackLewis.net — 5/6/2005 @ 9:12 am

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5. Go to Google and run these searches:

   Liberal Media Bias: 1.48 Million
   Conservative Media Bias: 1.36 Million Results

   Yahoo results:

   Liberal Media Bias: 1.8 Million
   Conservative Media Bias: 1.68 Million Results

   Pretty much the same huh? Why? Because everyone thinks that the media is against them. Here is a comment I made a while ago that explains why I think this is so:

   Media is not biased…any of it. Do you really think they truly care what is right, wrong, or truth anymore? Nope.
   What they care about is money - and entertainment, which creates money. If you don’t believe this, watch real news sometime (you’ll probably have to go to another country). It boring! Its presented straight up, no flashiness, no grandstanding, no editing to take the hard line one way or the other. Sure, its interesting because its informative, but truly, rather boring.
   We don’t have real news here in America. Know why? Because its all about the entertainment value. Entertainment makes money. This is why everything is a “crisis”. This is why everything is said with a straight face in ominous tones.
   Why do people think Fox is especially biased? Because they are the MOST interested in PURE ENTERTAINMENT. And right now, the conservatives have more interesting, hard-line, controversial stories than do liberals. Liberals want to talk about things and hand-wring and worry about feelings and discuss multiple sides to an issue. This takes too much time and ends up being rather dry. Conservatives are often unburdened by this type of desire and therefore currently provide the more ENTERTAINING viewpoint. If liberals want more air time, they are going to have to start being more interesting and entertaining.

   I wish it were biased. Then you could watch Fox and say: “Everything I am watching is biased conservative.” and you could watch ABC and say “Everything I am watching is biased liberal” and then you could possible figure out some truth because you knew that. But, you can’t, because it is all about the entertainment value of what is shown and who knows where that will lie.

   Comment by KraftyOne — 5/6/2005 @ 10:31 am

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6. I’m not sure if I mind Google’s bias so much… maybe I can make a case to some Republican venture capitalists and have them give me money to start a new company.

   Comment by John Bambenek — 5/6/2005 @ 1:36 pm

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7. I’m on board with that one, John.

   Comment by Cao — 5/6/2005 @ 2:13 pm

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8. The first entry to come up when the words “miserable failure” is put into Google is the White House biography of the president.

   Charles Johnson reported that Google seems to have no problem with Nazi news sites like National Vanguard, while Roger L. Simon no longer accepts Google advertisements.

   Google would have us believe its content decisions are not made by human beings, but by unthinking bots incapable of bias. Oh really? Hard to believe — in light of the disclaimer of “bias” — especially considering Google’s track record with the Second Amendment. (Nazis yes! Guns no?)

   According to the owners of Bowman’s Brigade, a Montana-based online gun parts and adventure gear retailer, the online search engine company Google, based in Silicon Valley, Calif., refused to accept prepaid advertising on three separate occasions earlier this month.

   “For gun owners, the problem is [the Google search engine] is widely used to find products, articles or information gun owners are interested in,” said a statement published by the retailer.

   However, at the same time, “Google is actively engaged in making sure you don’t see advertisers that just might have that particular product or information you wanted – if you’re a gun-related business that is,” the retailer said. “They do this by denying ad space to gun-related businesses – no matter what your ad may actually say.”

   Oh THAT’s fair, and not biased.

   Being that blogs were the ones who exposed Rathergate, Eason Jordan, and put the pressure on about Kerry’s record and so on, I can see why the liberals would find every way they possibly can to continue the Old Media reporting of the news and make it more difficult to find conservative voices. It is not a myth…and your linear thinking is evidence that you might not even be able to grasp this concept: When the big 3 and PBS are biased against conservative thought–that means every single channel you turn into on regular television does not shed light on the conservative point of view. That’s pretty disturbing.

   And then when Google makes the announcement that the Old Media is the only source of trusted “news” that means bloggers are out of the game. So where does that leave us, then?

   Comment by Cao — 5/6/2005 @ 4:32 pm

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9. Google Calls Christian Advertisement Hate Speech. Interestingly, they run ads showing anal sex. That’s a little bit hypocritical, I think. We don’t get any freedom of speech for something that is a mainstream view; that marriage between a man and a woman should remain between a man and a woman.

   WorldNetDaily™ is reporting that the Christian website Stand to Reason had one of their Google AdWords advertisements yanked by Google because their website practices hate speech against a group of people, and I bet you’d never guess the group of people.

   “Google’s objections had to do with other articles on our website pertaining to homosexuality,” [Melinda] Penner [director of operations for Stand to Reason] told WND. “They claimed that their specialist had deemed us a hate site and that their policies didn’t allow people to have ads that discriminated against certain groups, which include sexual orientation.”

   Penner said she asked Google what specifically it thought was “hate speech.”

   “The things they cited were all moral judgments from our religious perspective about homosexuality, that it’s wrong,” she explained.

   “The irony is that in one of the articles they cited, we have an admonition that one of our moral perspective is that we treat homosexuals respectfully and kindly.”

   In the meantime google searches in images show pornography mixed with innocent search results which indicates that it’s not a safe search engine for children.

   Comment by Cao — 5/6/2005 @ 4:43 pm

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10. Need More Evidence of Google’s Bias?

    Did you really need more evidence of Google’s tendency to lean left politically? From World Net DailyA conservative book publisher says the search engine giant Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while

    Trackback by Common Sense Runs Wild — 6/11/2005 @ 11:59 am

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11. Eghad! I’ve Been Googled!

    There’s a reason that neither “Yahooing” nor “Alta-Vistaing” quite made it as verbs. But at what cost are we Googling and being Googled?

    …

    Trackback by TMH's Bacon Bits — 11/17/2005 @ 7:11 am

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