On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:35:40PM -0500, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
On controversial topics, such as politics, all we can ever say with certainty is that X said Y about Z. Even then, sometimes X turns around and says Y2 about Z later on!
No, because opinions that contradict known facts have no need to be represented. A propagandist can say "Most of the Arab world firmly believes Jews eat the blood of non-Jewish children", but does that opinion really belong in an article on Judaism? By asserting that some people believe something, without some basis, you give tacit endorsement that "yes, thats one more valid opinion". But I am also opposed to putting such an opinion in just so one can bash the opinion (and in so doing, bash all Arabs by proxy).
Jonathan