Stan Shebs wrote:
William Pietri wrote:
I'm just saying that making the moral choices on behalf of our readers rather than leaving it up to them makes me nervous, both because I'm not sure where it will end and because I fear it will be the source of unending disagreement.
I agree that making moral choices is not our business, and I'll go further and say that a good chunk of our reputation derives from readers realizing that we work hard to stick to the facts of any situation. But every day that WP's visibility increases, there's going to that much more pressure from outside forces who see NPOV as tantamount to promotion of immorality. Our best defense is to be perceived as zealously neutral and capable of taking on all opponents, an Internet version of a Switzerland armed to the teeth against POV-pushers.
I can go along with that. The public often fails to distinguish between immorality and amorality. I don't know if being zealous need be a part of it, but a willingness to scrupulously question our own individual POVs is important.
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