On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:02 PM, WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 10/22/2008 4:59:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
snowspinner(a)gmail.com writes:
This ethic that people are responsible for our not fucking up their
articles has rightly been considered offensive by numerous actual
people.>>
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Except Phil you make it seem like we are responsible for what our
sources
state.
And we're just not.
We're responsible to use sources that are reliable. But if they say
"Britney Spears likes cheese" other then being silly, we're not
responsible for them
saying it, and we can cite it without guilt :0
Perhaps you can cite it without guilt. I, on the other hand, tend to
take seriously the responsibility of writing content for a top ten
website, and tend to believe that spreading untrue information, no
matter where it came from, is an irresponsible and at times immoral
thing to do on a top ten website.
But if your conscience is clear and you're willing to divest all
responsibility to others for what you say, more power to you. I can
understand why someone about whom you're saying untrue things would be
pissed, however.
Lord knows I would be.
-Phil