Professor Lih wrote:

Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:31 AM

If you expect to cite only "objective" news sources, it will be an empty page. No credible news organization can ever claim to be objective. One should evaluate it against the spectrum of other sources, and determine whether it is fair and balanced.

Yes, you are right. But I think we could highlight cases where a news organization OMITS easily obtainable information that contradicts the slant of its story. There's supposed to be a difference between commentary (like editorial, or an op-ed column) and straight news.

As I said later in the post you responded to, Wikipedia cannot condemn any news source, any more than it can endorse one. But I can WISH for objectivity, can't I?

A very idealistic Ed Poor