To: HAL9000
Why does Yahoo use Roto-Reuters as their news service?
13 posted on
03/30/2003 1:30:04 AM PST by
Russell Scott
(Iraqi soldier, is it really worth dying for the Butcher of Baghdad?)
To: Russell Scott
Why does Yahoo use Roto-Reuters as their news service? Heres the others they link to. AP, New York Times, USA Today, NPR, AFP [frog news service] and Oneworld.net.
Do you see any pattern here [grin]. They could rename them all the "Left Wing Weasle News Agencies".
Terp
19 posted on
03/30/2003 1:55:22 AM PST by
Terp
To: Russell Scott
Yahoo uses more than Reuters. On my Yahoo page I have AP, E!, San Jose Merc, LA times, WLJA, KPIX, KCBS,Baltimore Sun and Court TV... which is about 5% of their sources--at most .
FR just has a lot of "oh my God look what Dashcle/DNC/Jesse Jackson/Al Jazeera/etc is saying!!!" posts.
To: Russell Scott
Yahoo has a buttload of news sources. They'll run just about any source they can work out a deal with. It's just that Reuters consistently manages to be the only one to come up with these pink-sky "news" stories.
A better gauge of what's really going on is Google News, which is 100% computer-generated based roughly on the same algorhithm as the regular Google site, and is thus far more likely to bury uncorroborated crap like this.
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