Google News elevates ‘right to reply’
March 24th, 2008 • Google, Journalism
A few months back, Google caused a heap of stink by offering subjects of stories ‘featured’ on Google News a right of reply. Various traditional news sources threw a minor fit, pointing to the fact that Google didn’t actually generate any news in the first place.
Until a few days ago, the apparent invisibility of comments from story subjects made the Google move somewhat toothless - Old Media had, it seemed, caused a fuss over nothing. But Google is nothing if not dogged, and lo and behold News has begun to feature links showing all recent replies for the good folk featured in ‘its’ stories. This one’ll run and run.
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