Saturday, 5. October 2002
Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:20:12 AM CEST
Perspective: Who needs editors anyway?
The media navel-gazing over Google's News is getting to be a bit much. Ever since the Google News site launched last month, some media types have worked up a sweat over whether the robot-generated news page means the end of editors. Who could imagine that you don't need an editor to select the top stories of the moment? "No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page," boasts Google. In media circles, that boast is pure heresy. It's just not right, editors exclaim. "Where's the news judgment?" some of them wonder.
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