[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Charli Li kbblogger at verizon.net
Wed Mar 19 05:35:50 UTC 2008


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Robert Rohde's mail client expels the following stream of bytes on
19/03/2008 01:11:
> I don't know what the community as a whole really thinks, but I think
> your view that clearly labeled and distinguished advertisements are
> fundemental breach of NPOV is absurd.  I trust in the basic intelligence of
> our readers to be able to distinguish between a clearly labeled ad and our
> actual content.  Do you consider the NYTimes (and essentially every other
> newspaper and magazine) to be fundementally biased simply because they
carry
> ads?
Mass-media like /The New York Times/ are for-profit businesses.
Wikimedia is a non-profit charity.  Non-profit means no ads.

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Charli Li (vishwin/O)
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