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by iscro 2747 days ago
That's an excellent point. Strange enough, you described the original ethos of google news. Google news was created in the mid 2000s to give a broad and counterbalancing view of news. It was intended to show not only what "we" were saying about an event, but also what "they" were saying about it. This naturally didn't sit well with our news industry and it didn't well with their news industry and they pressured google to curate and localize the news. For a brief period of time, when idealists ran google, google news offered a broad view of the world. Sadly, now everything is localized, even search.