To make it worse, 10 minutes after I corrected the liberal bias in the Missing Explosives story some anonymous IP user deleted the entire day -- wiping out 1/2 hour of my work.
How can we be accurate or neutral, with this sort of thing going on? When I've brought this up previously, people ask me to provide examples. I have. Today I've done so again.
These are not isolated examples. And now on MediaWiki I find that someone wants to create news articles which CANNOT EVER BE EDITED AGAIN. Well, that would be nice if they are vetted for accuracy and neutrality first.
We cannot side with the Kerry campaign and refer to the explosives as having "not been secured or guarded" properly. That's merely their CLAIM. Two other sources (one media, one military) say that NOBODY ever saw any such explosives other than UN inspectors BEFORE the invasion.
I hate to sound shrill, but this sort of bias is endemic -- and I just don't have the 8 hours a day it would take to counter it by myself.
I think the news sidebar needs a manager, just like our Featured Article sidebar has a manager.
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed