--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
This sounds like POV argument by innuendo
Indeed it does.
> Poor, Edmund W wrote:
>
> >Harry Smith is right when he says:
> >
> >
> >>To fail to differentiate between these two [murder
> and killing] is
> >>to deprive the reader of information that is
> important.
> >>
> >>
> >That is why, after reporting the straight news that
> militants killed an
> >Arab youth, we ought to try and report some
> additional information.
> >
> I'm glad that you changed the reference to a
> "youth". The previous
> statements on this even made different assertions
> about his age. Even
> relatively innocent "facts" can be a basis for
> further confusion.
>
> >If we can find someone on the scene or related to
> it, or who has a
> >moral/legal point of view about it, then we can
> quote them.
> >
> >For example:
> >
> >* A statement by Fatah defended the killing as
> "regrettable but utterly
> >necessary ... Anyone who gets in our way must die,
> it is the will of
> >Allah." (totally made-up hypothetical statement)
> >
> >* A statement by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said:
> "These militants are
> >animals, they murder anyone who gets in their way."
> (also hypothetical)
> >
> >Each of these sample statements provides the
> necessary information. One
> >source says the killing was NOT murder, and the
> other source says it
> >WAS.
> >
> They don't. Both of these statements avoid
> responsibility by
> attributing the comments to an organization. What
> authority did the the
> speaker have to represent Fatah policy? Was the IDF
> statement taken
> from an otherwise anonymous press release?
>
> >The Wikipedia cannot, unfortunately, let the reader
> know which source is
> >right but anyone with an ounce of common sense
> knows that side @#$ is
> >usually right in these matters. (I'm not saying
> which bullet point @#$
> >refers to...)
> >
This sounds like POV argument by innuendo
>
> Ec
>
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