Good work, Ed, but we can't run ahead of the news media without a
professional like you on the case. CNN has picked up your point now so it
can go in Wikipedia. As a derivative site, we're going to get fooled with
the rest of em until we begin to do research.
Fred
From: "Poor, Edmund W"
<Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:42:43 -0700
To: <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] More anti-US bias in Current Events
Today, the main page's current event box had this for its lead story:
Nearly 380 tons of explosives are missing from an
Iraqi site
meant for Saddam Hussein's dismantled nuclear program but never
secured by the U.S. military.
It took me less than 5 minutes of googling to find the opposite POV:
An NBC News crew embedded with troops moved in to
secure the
Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the
liberation of Iraq. According to NBC News, the HMX and RDX
explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.
So it is not accurate to assert that the explosives were "never
secured", as the US Democratic Party and its liberal media allies
complained.
Rather, the article should say that:
* US Democrats blamed the army for "not securing" the explosives
AND THAT:
* An NBC News report says that the explosives were already missing when
the American troops arrived.
It's very cumbersome to fix Wikipedia's front page, so Raul or whoever
maintains it, please fix this error.
Ed Poor
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