The latest controversy: Google News is delinking certain conservative sites. Someone deep in the bowels realized driving traffic to Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin totally screwed with their "Don't Be Evil" motto. Turns out Google won't retain sites packed with hate speech. The reactions is exactly as melodramatic as you'd expect. Roy gets the imagery right:
Dan Riehl has been disaggregated by Google News. Worse, they responded to his repeated letters of complaint ("after my nth email with Glenn's post included") with what Riehl considers a "non-answer." (It looks like a form letter to me.) Standing on a storm-buffeted promontory and shaking his gloved fist, Riehl declares that "Google as a company will ultimately stumble, or at least need adult management one day," as the music swells.
Elsewhere, Ramesh Ponnuru's book isn't getting reviewed enough.
These are the men and women whose iron wills and able minds are supposed to protect us from terrorism? The Fighting Keyboardists need to learn to deal with disappointment. Not only am I not linked by Google News, but I've never written a book, and yet I somehow keep the razor away from my wrists.
