The example is compelling when one is aware of the facts and not merely a single well publicized even in mass media spin. This may be a useful example for your PR issues also. http://www.prwatch.org/node/2921 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/20/bush_guard_records/index.html http://www.prwatch.org/node/2916
Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote: Steve Bennett wrote:
Notability at the fact level is even harder to determine than notability at the subject level. Ask a republican whether Bush's alleged administrative adventures in the National Guard were "notable". Ask a Democrat the same.
Hmm, I might be convinced by what you are saying here, but this example does not seem compelling to me. I think, based on my limited recollection of this case, that it more or less turned out that the "alleged administrative adventures" were more or less cooked up, i.e. that this was a non-scandal. But I would suspect that reasonable Republicans would take the same view that I do: the overall incident is still notable, of course.
But I still might agree with your basic point, that notability at the fact level is harder to determine that notability at the subject level.
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