SJ wrote:
And, last but not least, from today's news:
- Britannica has chosen a new 15-person advisory board, the first
since the last one was effectively disbanded 10 years ago. They hope that, among other things, this will bolster their image as a vetted and polished resource, to "respond to competitive challenges from Google, Yahoo, and the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia." http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/21/venerable_encylopedia_...
A nice article by Eric Ferkenhoff, who is clueful enough not to use the definite article in front of the big WP. There seem to be two Harvard economics professors on the board...
From that article:
''We're deciding what people are going to think," said Wendy Doniger, a professor in the University of Chicago's Divinity School and the only member to have also served on the previous board, which had its last meeting in 1995.
There's the difference! With our stress on NPOV we're encouraging people to think for themselves.
They just don't get it.
Ec