Here’s the front page of Google News Canada a few moments ago (click to get the full image).

That lead story deals with the Terri Shiavo case. But it doesn’t come from CNN, the New York Times, CTV, the CBC, Reuters or even Fox News. It comes from Lifesite – a heavily biased site that describes its worldview this way:

LifeSite’s writers and founders have come to understand that respect for life and family are endangered by an international conflict. That conflict is between radically opposed views of the worth and dignity of every human life and of family life and community. It has been caused by secularists attempting to eliminate Christian morality and natural law principles which are seen as the primary obstacles to implementing their new world order.

LifeSite understands that abortion, euthanasia, cloning, homosexuality and all other moral, life and family issues are part of the international conflict affecting all nations, even at the most local levels. LifeSite attempts to provide its readers with the most useful and up-to-date information on this conflict.

There’s growing frustration online with Google’s refusal to reveal how it selects its news sources. (Most recently, that flared up when white supremacist site National Vanguard made it into Google News results. It’s since been removed.)

During the last federal election, Google News Canada’s results included copious postings from the Liberal web site, but nothing from the NDP.

Unlike Google’s main search engine, Google News is managed manually; suggested additions to their stable of news sites are, according to their FAQ, reviewed “without regard to political viewpoint or ideology.”

The order and prominence of news stories, according to Google, is automated. But something’s broken when Google is sending unsuspecting readers to shills instead of news organizations (even merely nominal ones like Fox).