Geoffrey Burling wrote:
[Examples]
*President Bush, alleged cocaine abuser
*The CIA allegedly sold drugs in Los Angeles to fund the Contras in Nicaraugua
*Kenneth Lay, indicted for corporate fraud
*Martha Stewart, convicted of insider trading
I think is a solution that would nicely fit with the
rules of NPOV.
I thought that too. Interestingly though UK broadcasting rules are more
relaxed about this.
For instance, programmes do not have to say "Harold Shipman, convicted
of mass murder,...". They can, and do, say "Mass murderer Harold
Shipman...". Once someone has been convicted of X, that person doesn't
appear to have recourse if someone calls them an Xer.
Is this a case where WP NPOV exacts a higher standard than supposedly
neutral TV news programmes?
Pete