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Thursday, March 3, 2005


Echoing the sentiments of news consumers across the country, Dave Winer, weblog pioneer, writes, "can we once and for all get rid of the notion that professional journalists are objective?"

After all, Winer notes, many websites "don't actually have editorial content that could be objective or not."

But when webloggers want to find information on the Internet, do they reach for an openly subjective search engine like Yahoo, where search results can be bought? No, they reach for Google, and get upset when they think Google is biased.

In fact, objectivity is a stated goal of Google. As one of the founders told NPR's Terry Gross:

"Part of our job is to give you the absolute best information, the most objective and honest information that we know how, and we work very very hard to do that."

Objectivity may be impossible as an achievable ideal, but it is essential as a goal.



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