[WikiEN-l] An example of a bad biography

WJhonson at aol.com WJhonson at aol.com
Wed Apr 30 17:12:05 UTC 2008


 
In a message dated 4/30/2008 1:19:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
delirium at hackish.org writes:

It's  particularly damaging if the article looks 
authoritative---well-written,  good formatting, footnotes duly inserted, 
etc... but highly biased and  libelous. On the other hand, a union leader 
being called "a douchebag" by  a random person on the internet, with bad 
grammar and the offending  juvenile insult removed a week later, doesn't 
suffer particularly great  harm>>


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It's much harder to address type A however, than it is to address type  B.
We can all spot a random "fuck you" in the middle of a discussion of the  
merits of cucumbers.  It's much harder to spot an unfounded bias.
 
Will 



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