[WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Thu Mar 17 16:50:54 UTC 2011


On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, George Herbert wrote:
> It's not perfect, but it's balanceable.  It's sometimes broken, but
> SOFIXIT - within the system, not by introducing a new external entity
> trying to subvert it.

I don't even understand your answer as an answer, since it's so full of
qualifications.  Do you think that they (either the Koch's or CAMERA) were/are
really trying to add bias and that their protestations that they want to
remove it are lies?  (And if you do *not* believe this, then why all the talk
which assumes that they're adding bias, contrary to what they said?)  Do you
think that they're sincere about wanting to remove bias but they don't
understand what bias is?  Do you think they're sincere and know what it is,
but you don't think their methods will work?

And how exactly is being too good at doing something "subverting" it?

> That does work.  People demonstrate that every
> day, even on the worst of hostile topics.

Wikipedia's system manifestly does not work in a lot of places.  Why should
removal of bias be the one place where Wikipedia is perfection?



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