∞ Google sees responsibility to make news media better

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Claire Cain Miller reports for the New York Times that Ted Koppel commented that too much news drivel and said it wouldn’t be a bad idea for Google to deliver people the news they need, rather than the news they want. Google CEO Larry Page responded:

“I see this as our responsibility to some extent, trying to improve media,” Mr. Page said. “If you ask anyone about how that information’s going to be propagated, what you’re going to focus on, I think it could work a lot better than it does now.”

Slippery slope folks.


  • Anonymous

    Someone should inform Larry Page that journalists don’t work for free.

    • http://kevinconner.myopenid.com/ Kevin Conner

      Could see them scraping and undermining the likes of the Huffington Post though.

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    I’d like to decide what news is relevant for me thankyouverymuch.

    • Anonymous

      I wholeheartedly agree. I can do a better job deciding what news I “need” than these arrogant assholes.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XENVNKXRXRIHZBGMN35N44M3VA dreyfus_ffm

    Leisure Suit Larry should, please, continue to buy moldy IBM patents and bankrupt phone makers 400% over value… he’s pretty good at that. Or continue to manufacture the perfect human being by dev/nulling verboten sperms with his even more scary partner. But, please, do not even pretend you could “improve media”… Nobody would have even found that Huffbitch without you, so: shut up.

  • http://ComicsPundit.com/ Shawn L.

    Google would have more success trying to make us all eat our broccoli.