Is Google News getting worse?

When news.google.com was first introduced, I loved it. It had a very broad set of content - news stories from all over the world, about subjects we hardly see in mainstream news (African despots, South East Asian economics, Chinese liberty, etc).

Google News gets their content from online papers, and decides what's hot and what's not based on the number of links to given stories. Since the introduction of Google News, Google has acquired more blogs (including this one) in order, in part, to add their links to the news calculations.

As a result, Google News looks like CNN.com now. Even though Google news allows you to have nine stories per category instead of 3 or 4, it's still 9 stories of crap. It has become yet another 90 percent phenomenon.