• Bad search engine results re: I Chose Freedom

    From Pluted Pup@plutedpup@outlook.com to rec.arts.books,rec.arts.tv on Tue Feb 10 17:56:15 2026
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    So I see a bad link in the beginning of the wikipedia
    article on the book I Chose Freedom (1947), that
    claims to point to a New York Times review of the
    book; I'm aware of later references by the NYT
    that dismisses the book as "cold war era" literature,
    which made me want to see the original review.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Chose_Freedom

    Here is the first result of a Bing.com search for:

    I Chose Freedom "new york times" review


    Health influencers sell themselves as iconoclasts, but many have cozy,
    uncritical relationships with the rich and powerful. The president shows,
    once again, that he shouldnrCOt be anywhere near the Oval. New York
    Times Opinion columnists, editorials and guest essays.


    And Google.com for the same search term says that
    this link is a New York Times review:

    https://sites.google.com/site/newyorkcityapril1946/books/book-reviews-this-week-in-1946/i-chose-freedom-reviewed-by-the-nyt

    Which is not the language of the New York Times or
    Kravchenko in style or content. Google has simply
    taken the assumption that all headlines and titles
    are true representations of content, which anyone
    with News Literacy knows is not true.

    By the way, Wikipedia has taken money from Google
    in exchange for altering content, which makes
    wikipedia's advertising for donations to be
    deceptive, giving the "illusion of public support".

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