Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Google 'Top Stories' dominated by 'left leaning sources' CNN, New York Times, Washington Post - Washington Times

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"A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of left-leaning sources.
...Their data showed that 86% of Google’s Top Stories came from only 20 news sources. 
Just three dominated the coverage, with 23% of all impressions counted — CNN with 10.9%, The New York Times with 6.5% and The Washington Post with 5.6%.
Fox News, which was ranked fourth, only had 3%.
...What we do know is that Google’s algorithmic curation of news in search converts to real and substantial amounts of user attention and traffic.”
...they found that 62% of the impressions were from sources considered left-leaning and only 11% from right-leaning outlets..."
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