Christiaan Briggs wrote:
"Sincere interest in a fair presentation of the facts" by those addicted to power is an awfully tenuous assumption
Perhaps, but I think that the majority of people by far are not "addicted to power" and that a higher level of discourse is not only desirable, but possible.
It would please me greatly to see our articles on Bush and Kerry linked and praised by activists on both sides, because that would tell me that we are likely doing our job well.
The is the essence of NPOV -- a fair presentation that all sides can accept as a productive summary of the topic. I think most people appreciate that, even though the usual tendency in political discourse is to be highly partisan.
--Jimbo