Is Google Making Us Stupid
June 21st, 2008 5:09 PM
Not really, but neo-luddite Neil Postman wannabe types sure are.
Google Puts 'Gay' Bush-Blair Picture Next to Same-sex Marriage Headlin
May 18th, 2008 11:10 AM
Google News early Sunday morning, at its "Top Stories" front page, posted a suggestive Photoshopped picture of President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair next to a headline about the California Supreme Court's recent ruling on same-sex marriages.In the picture, Bush and a shirtless Blair are cuddling underneath an American flag.Accident? Something to do with Google's…
TWC’s Cullen Advocates Using Weather.com, Google Earth to Promote Gl
May 1st, 2008 4:48 PM
The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen says one of the steps to fight global warming is using images to affect people's outlook. At the "Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge" forum held at Harvard University in Boston, Mass. on April 30, Cullen suggested using Weather.com and Google Earth to add visual elements to promote the cause. "[I] split my time between The Weather Channel and…
The Greening Of The Internet
April 22nd, 2008 11:44 AM
Today is Earth Day, and you don't have to look any further than the home pages of the top Internet companies to see it. Green is the politically correct color of choice for firms that want to score cheap environmental points online.The bias is most blatant at Google and its video-sharing subsidiary, YouTube. Google's logo has gone completely green, and the television screen within YouTube's logo…
Obama Tech Advisor Introduces Video of Gay, Singing Jesus Who Gets Hit
April 21st, 2008 2:21 AM
Video Below the Fold
Erick Erickson over at RedState tells us all of an anti-Christian video recently introduced with great frivolity by Internet philosopher and Obama technology advisor Larry Lessig. The video introduced at a Google Author series seminar shows Jesus singing the Gloria Gaynor tune "I Will Survive" in a very effeminate, theatrical way. As the song ramps up, Jesus throws off his…
Google Sued for Banning Pro-Life Ad
April 16th, 2008 1:30 PM
A Christian group in Great Britain is suing internet search behemoth Google for religious discrimination over its refusal to place pro-Life advertisements.Oddly, the technology giant doesn't ban ads for abortion clinics or pro-abortion websites.Interesting dichotomy, wouldn't you agree?As reported by CNA last Thursday (emphasis added):
Google to 'Shut Down' Capitol Switchboard Over Global Warming
April 1st, 2008 1:05 PM
Ah, Earf Day. The day when all the Chicken Littles and the occasional boy who cried wolf can get their fifteen minutes of attention. Don't we just love the warm and fuzzies of claiming the mantle of God and "saving" the Earf from global warming? Well, The Washington Times Fishwrap blog reports that Google has joined the fray to save the Earf and they are going to do it by helping Kathleen Rogers…
Carbon Sense Coalition: 'Earth Hour' Should be Renamed 'Dark Hour
March 29th, 2008 1:48 PM
As previously reported by NewsBusters, there's an international climate change awareness promotion going on today called Earth Hour, and websearch giant Google is not only participating in it, but advocating its goals. Presenting the other side of this argument is an organization called The Carbon Sense Coalition.It wants "to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and…
Google Blacks Out Homepage During 'Earth Hour' to 'Combat Climate Chan
March 29th, 2008 12:30 PM
Want some more proof of Google's political leanings.Well, consider that the websearch giant is participating in Earth Hour, "a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live."Here's what Google displayed at its website moments ago (h/t NBer Wilbur747, emphasis added):
Frightening Canadian Free-Speech Suppression Ignored by US Old Media
January 21st, 2008 7:47 AM
My my, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is busy these days -- aiding and abetting those who wish to suppress the human right of free speech and expression. Even though (or is it because?) the vehicle that enabled and emboldened the CHRC's thought police and those who complain to it was the passage of the kind of "non-discrimination" legislation Congress has considered passing for…
UK Organ Donation Controversy Barely Noticed by US Old Media
January 20th, 2008 11:50 AM
About a week ago, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested in a UK Telegraph column that allowing hospitals to harvest organs from dead patients without their prior consent or their families' post-mortem consent might be a good idea. Mr. Brown's occasion for bringing up the topic was telling, and perhaps explains why Brown's proposal got very little coverage in the US:This year will be the…
Google Claims Conservative Website ‘May Harm Your Computer
December 28th, 2007 3:30 PM
A funny thing happens if you Google the name of one of America's leading conservative magazines: a warning comes up stating, "This site may harm your computer." Think I'm kidding? A screen-capture of the first page of Google web search results for "American Spectator" follows, although readers are strongly encouraged to investigate for themselves (image is blurry due to space constraints):
