Putting emotions aside, decent news ranking algorithm should: - put high weight on the original content - put higher weight on the local reporting - put higher weight on popular news sources (e.g. high quotation index, high page rank etc.) - put lower weight on second- and third-hand reporting

Under such conditions, it's extremely hard (if not impossible) to ignore propaganda, which _by design_ generates lots of original and local content, unless you execercise some political judgement, such as punishing news sources for being funded by hostile governments - which is what Google News is trying to avoid, according to them.

It seems to me that Google News is just reflecting (sad) reality where more money/resources can generate more coverage. Any ideas how technology could change that?