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Is this an example of the perils of algorithm-generated headlines? The front page of today's Google News UK doesn't have a mention of the financial crisis above the fold, even as every other website in Britain is flashing red. The Sun and the Times even crashed due to "weight of traffic" (though we don't believe that for a minute. Every other news site was functioning properly and let's face it, The Sun is hardly the first stop for readers eager to know the latest twists from the global bourses.
It's almost soothing to read Google News, despite its reports on terrorism, trouble in Thailand and the news that the energy-saving lightbulb your correspondent's partner has installed beside his desk is probably killing him slowly. Back in the crazed world of the mainstream press, where disaster headlines come thick and fast, one gets the impression that the economy is being bled to death at 10 percent a day.
