Google News Faking Headlines?

James Joyner · Friday, August 5, 2005 · 4 Comments

Confederate Yankee thought he had found evidence that Google News was faking headlines. Thanks to Eugene Volokh, he found out they weren’t.

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Frank says:

Friday, August 5, 2005 at 09:53

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.

http://www.team-swap.com/wordpress/2005/08/05/a-quality-blog/

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Paul says:

Friday, August 5, 2005 at 10:47

The guy must not use google news much.

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Danny Carlton says:

Friday, August 5, 2005 at 11:28

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.

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Peter says:

Friday, August 5, 2005 at 20:06

Easy mistake to make, but you meant Jim Lindgren, not Eugene Volokh, right?

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