Kim Komando: Credible Sources are the New York Times, Bloomberg, Yahoo!, the Huffington Post

Gun Watch ^ | 27 August, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

I was listening to the Kim Komando show today on my car radio.

A conservative woman came on, and said she had a large following on Pinterest, but received almost no hits from Google. She said she thought she was being discriminated against by Google because she was a Conservative, even though her articles were not political, but were about food.

Kim listened, commended her on how much of a following she had, then explained that she was probably not getting hits because she was not linked, to use Kim's term, to 'credible" sources. Sources like the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Huffington Post, and Yahoo!

If I would have had coffee, I would have choked on it. Half the country finds those sources to be completely biased to the left.

Does Kim know something we do not? Probably. She is the self proclaimed "Digital Goddess".

Consider, if your blog or website is limited in the hits it can get, by Google, based on how many leftist sources you link to, can it become much more biased?

Not much. This effectively blocks Google customers from the thoughts of half the content creators on the Internet. It is a way to gatekeep using algorithms.  Google controls about 70% of the searches on the Internet.

This is thought control that is invisible and insidious.

If anyone has access to a transcript of the Kim Komando show from 26 August,  I would  love to have exact quotes rather than use my faulty memory.

Others likely know much more about this than I do. Is it widely known? Has Google always discriminated on political ideology rather than on the number of hits? Is it based on the advertising dollars it brings in? Special deals with the New York Times, Huffington Post, Yahoo?

All of the above?



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[marktwain]

Seems like a clear form of censorship, or perhaps a better term is information control.

[puppypusher]

One reason not to listen too Kim Komando.Credible sources my a$$.

[Perseverando]

Kim just lost all credibility. I have been a subscriber to her emails for several years, but that just ended in about 2 minutes from now.

[apocalypto]

I stopped reading HUffPost a long time ago. As I recall, it stated that all news about Trump will be on entertainment pages.

[Bigtigermike]

Maybe Kim is misinformed. I do know that Kim is against net neutrality and explains that it’s big companies seeking more control on the net and blasted young people for foolishly following in lockstep with the media

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You gotta give Huffington Post some due though. They managed to create an actual online newspaper.

It might be leftist, but HuffPost does have excellent stories on fashion, cooking, traveling, and entertainment.

[VanDeKoik]

“Does Kim know something we do not? Probably. She is the self proclaimed “Digital Goddess”.”

I have zero respect for anyone that gets their tech info or advice from this person, and have for 20 years.

[Fungi]

I listen to Leo LaPorte doing the Tech Guy show, and he knows more than Kim could ever know. Leo has been doing that for over 20 years, taking over where Jeff Levy left off. Jeff changed channels and died shortly thereafter. Between the two, a close race; Leo talks too fast and Jeff ate too much which led to his death. Miss Jeff, but I listen to Leo now until I turn the radio off due to his blistering speed talk.

[LegendHasIt]

I always figured Kim was fairly conservative; I met her a few times in the old days at conservative gatherings in Phoenix.

She is married to an old conservative KFYI talk radio host, Barry Young... (although admittedly I always considered Barry to be a fair amount less conservative than I)

[marktwain]

I always figured Kim was fairly conservative; I met her a few times in the old days at conservative gatherings in Phoenix.

I thought so as well. That is why I was flumoxed by her comment. Maybe she was using it as a term of art, as in "the sources that Google defines as credible in their algorithm".

I would like to know, one way or another.

Could it be that Google rates sources by how many hits they get? That is how I used to understand the search engine to work.

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, I thought it might be something like that too.

Maybe she will clarify.

[texas booster]

While I like Leo, Security Now is the only one of his podcasts that I still listen to.

Cause of the other guy.

[Noamie]

I heard this exchange. Kim was typical “what are talking about you paranoid conservative nut job?” dismissive, patronizing, condescension.

I maintain that Kim sounds like a man. Just sayin.

[lee martell]

Kim’s ‘Man Voice’ took a while to get used to, and can still throw me off if I awaken to her weekend radio show.
I’ll think; “Who is he?”. That said, Kim seems to be having a good time on the air. She runs an entertaining show for people like me, who are not very tech savvy and don’t necessarily wish to be.

[Fungi]

What other guy?

[marktwain]

I heard this exchange. Kim was typical “what are talking about you paranoid conservative nut job?” dismissive, patronizing, condescension.

Thanks for the backup.

That was my immediate uptake as well. But if you look at it objectively, and Google is using links to those leftist sources as a measure of who they should steer clicks too, it is major evidence of ideological bias.

More than just bias, it verges on thought control.

[Deplorable American1776]

I’m hoping Kim Komando misspoke. I hope she did.

[ThunderSleeps]

...probably not getting hits because she was not linked, to use Kim's term, to 'credible" sources. Sources like the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Huffington Post, and Yahoo!

It takes a special kind of fool, or perhaps someone stunningly gullible or ignorant, to believe these sources are in any way "credible." NYT, HufPo??? Seriously? I would believe anything printed in supermarket checkout line tabloids over anything printed in these rags.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Same. This person is in way over her head in technology and now politics.

[Figment]

Leo Laport is pro net neutrality and is fairly lib when he mentions anything political. I quit listening to Komado quite awhile ago, was surprised she is antiNN