Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
Summary
Mike Elgan critiques Google News, using a Forrest Gump metaphor to argue that Google's news aggregator has degraded. The piece highlights how search results now pull from social media, foreign languages, and non-U.S. sources, undermining timely, localized news curation for journalists and readers. It portrays Google News as abandoned and crashing into the dock, urging readers to consider alternatives and the impact on news discovery.