Google News Faking Headlines?
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James Joyner | Friday, August 5, 2005 |
Confederate Yankee thought he had found evidence that Google News was faking headlines. Thanks to Eugene Volokh, he found out they weren’t.
The Blogosphere: Fact checking our own asses.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Nice post and great blog. We threw up a post to your blog and both this post and your post about the UK exporting Islamic radicals. Thanks for showing everyone how to run good blog.
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The guy must not use google news much.
Posted by Paul | August 5, 2005 | 10:47 am | Permalink
It sounds like the used the LV Sun headline, but the Newsday article. If that's not faking a headline, it's about as close as you can get without doing it.
Posted by Danny Carlton | August 5, 2005 | 11:28 am | Permalink
Easy mistake to make, but you meant Jim Lindgren, not Eugene Volokh, right?
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