misseli writes “In case anyone is still licking their wounds from Joel Achenbach’s Washington Post piece on how Google is making libraries (and librarians) obsolete, “Lies, Damned Lies and Google takes journalists to task for ascribing too much relevancy to Google’s search results.
From writer Lionel Beehner:
Sad to say, plugging Google in a story has become almost a telltale sign of sloppy reporting, a hack’s version of a Rolodex. Journalists, especially ones from highbrow publications like The New Yorker, should be sourcing hard stats, not search-engine evidence, to bolster their stories.“
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