Professor Lih wrote:
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:31 AM
If you expect to cite only "objective" news
sources, it will
be an empty page. No credible news organization can ever
claim to be objective. One should evaluate it against the
spectrum of other sources, and determine whether it is fair
and balanced.
Yes, you are right. But I think we could highlight cases where a news
organization OMITS easily obtainable information that contradicts the
slant of its story. There's supposed to be a difference between
commentary (like editorial, or an op-ed column) and straight news.
As I said later in the post you responded to, Wikipedia cannot condemn
any news source, any more than it can endorse one. But I can WISH for
objectivity, can't I?
A very idealistic Ed Poor