On Saturday 15 November 2003 04:09, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Cunctator wrote:
A brief summary of what I'd like to see as the policy: Yes. Fortunately we can rely on the pool of perfectly accurate, non-propagandizing, value-judgmentless historical references to do so.
Oops, they don't exist.
Actually, they do. For example, "Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821" is a statement whose accuracy no one seriously disputes, and it doesn't carry any particular propaganda or value judgments. Whether
Some believe that Napoleon was poisoned. Not mentioning that in a sentence about his death is inaccurate to them.