Why not? Google Search started out unbiased, Pagerank (the algorithm) did not care about any opinions or attitudes or leanings and the results ended up being re

Why not? Google Search started out unbiased, Pagerank (the algorithm) did not care about any opinions or attitudes or leanings and the results ended up being representative of what was out there on the 'net. The same approach could have been used for Google News by pulling in any news source found by Google's crawlers which happened to report on any specific issue, weighing the rank of those sources the same way that regular search results used to be weighed (i.e. those sources which are linked to more often (after filtering out link farms) end up higher than fly-by-night operations which nobody links to. This is not what Google News does though, instead is seems to either use a whitelist or apply a blacklist to produce 'reputable news sources'. It is there the bias starts, in the selection of which sources to link to.