Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google

FOX ^ | February 18, 2008

[ddtorquee]

How big do you have to be to earn the wrath of the United Nations and Internet giant Google?

If you're journalist Matthew Lee, all it takes are some critical articles and a scrappy little Web site.

Lee is the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation that's taken on Goliath-sized entities like Citigroup since 1987.

Since 2005, he's been focusing almost entirely on stories that deal with internal corruption inside the U.N., posting several stores online almost daily.

He's been especially interested in the inner workings of what could be called the practical-applications arm of the international organization, the United Nations Development Programme.

Many of Lee's stories were featured prominently whenever Web users looked for news about the U.N. using the powerful Google News search engine, a vital way for media outlets both large and small to get their articles read.

But beginning Feb. 13, Google News users could no longer find new stories from the Inner City Press.

"I think they said, 'If we can't get this guy out of the U.N., let's disappear him from the Internet,'" Lee said.

It began with an innocuous-sounding yet chilling form letter from Google to Lee, e-mailed on Feb. 8:

"We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience for our users," it said. "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News."

[NonValueAdded]

Has his material disappeared from Google entirely or is he simply no longer listed as a “legitimate” news source. If it is the former, then that is hugh and series. But if it is the latter, consider that everything we write on our own here at FR ends up either in Chat or on Bloggers and Personal. It is still out there on FR and is swept up by Google but even on Free Republic, no matter how profound our writing, we’re not afforded the “news” category.

[neverdem]

Here’s another reason to stop using Google. Find another search engine.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Does anybody else wonder why we still support the UN?

It tries to undermine the Constitution of the USA and would love to cripple our Constitutional Republic.
In over 60 years No major politician has ever tried to get the USA out of the UN.

16 out of 17 of the AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. were later identified, in sworn testimony, as secret communist agents.

The first (Titular) Secretary General was the AMERICAN Alger Hiss.
Alger Hiss served time in prison pursuant to his involvement in a Communist spy ring.

Many of the other AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. fled the country, to avoid prosecution.

The ONE AMERICAN, that was involved in creating the U . N. and was NOT later identified, in sworn testimony, as a secret communist agent, was Dean Acheson.
Dean Acheson’s law firm was the legal representative of the Soviet Union, in U. S. courts.

If the AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. were Communists, what do you think we got from the rest of the world?

[dervish]

If they don’t like being exposed as hard left then why are they involved in this:

Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google.org Launch Small to Medium Enterprise Investment Company for India

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080219_omidyar_googleorg.html

[AliVeritas]

BTTT

Shoot, i’d better check Claudia.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Interesting, thanks for the ping.