[WikiEN-l] Single-sourcing (was: Reddi's POV edits of Current Events)

Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com
Thu Nov 20 14:33:26 UTC 2003


There's nothing wrong with single-sourcing. SecretLondon reads the
Guardian, I read the Washington Times. Go ahead and quote from the
Washington Post or New York Times if you want. Everybody posts info from
the sources they know.

Many people think the Post and the NY Times are editorially biased, but
does anyone think their *news* is untrustworthy? Okay, there was the
Jason Blair thing, and the guy whose Pulitzer from 60 years ago might be
revoked for whitewashing Stalin's Ukrainian genocide - but I mean aside
from minor things like that, does anyone really consider them
untrustworthy sources?

Same for the Washington Times: okay, their editorials and most of their
columnists are conservative; but does anyone think their *news" is
untrustworthy?

Uncle Ed



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