Judson Dunn wrote:
For your comedy pleasure :)
http://xkcd.com/545/
Oddly, my first thought when I saw that was, 'but the coverage of the
*event* would still be completely neutral'. You don't bias the coverage
by declaring something like that, since the editing can still be
completely NPOV while having an external influence. Unlike many other
editors, I'm a (partially) trained journalist (siren song of web
development lured me away from school), and I edit under the influence
of that training. It isn't non-neutral to edit for 'as few words as
possible, and as close to a 5th grade reading level as the subject
allows'. The result is that, while there will be meta-reasons for
editing as is done, the *coverage* can still be completely neutral.
This *entire* refutation popped into my head before I was even finished
the comic the other day, and is mostly irrelevant, but this list is the
only place where I can geek like this.
S.