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Why won't Google News allow personal customizations to remove FOX News? Report abuse

no_fox_noise
Level 1
3/2/10
It's very clear from the number of times that this specific issue has come up, and from the completely worthless "self-help" tips that are too arcane, and too ineffective, that Google News simply does not have the integrity to allow individual users to make personal preferences about which so-called news sites are displayed at news.google.com

Many, many people have expressed the opinion that FOX News and the Wall Street Journal are nothing more than propaganda arms of the Republican party and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Individual people do have the right to hold this opinion.

Individual people should have the opportunity to act upon their opinions, and eliminate any "news" feeds from FOX News and its affiliates, and the Wall Street Journal, if they so choose.

Since Google is entirely unresponsive to the requests of  so many people, I for one will take the only action that one person can:

I've closed the browser tab that used to point to news.google.com for good, I'm gone, and I won't be back.

See ya...

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staggerlee
Level 1
3/6/10
yes PLEASE
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kurbycar32
Level 1
3/17/10
I think you would get better results if you remove the political nature from your question.  I too would like to remove Fox News and the Wall Street Journal from my Google news preferences because I don't feel they are relevant to me.  mostly i hate seeing an article, clicking on it and finding that the wall street journal wants to charge me for content.  I would prefer to be able to control which sources i get my news from which is a preferences issue
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FoxControlWanted
Level 1
3/20/10
I like kurbycar32's comment, how this is not really a political motivated request, but that it would be powerful for the user to be in control of news sources... not Google.  People feel strongly about Fox, as it is so obviously biased.  On the other side, it is why I also don't read the Huffington Post.  

It isn't news if it is opinion (labeled as news).
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