On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:32:22 -0500, "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
You really think attack blogs should be linked to articles on living individuals on the grounds that readers can make up their own minds? Wow.
Is that "Wow" facetious? I hope so.
Not especially, no. If one is George W. Bush, and an attack blog is in the top 50 sites on Alexa, I'd expect it to be linked, but this is a trivial story from the election, almost entirely unrelated to the MP's performance of her duties and of strictly limited significance in her life as a whole. Constituent opposes candidate? Interesting during the election, maybe interesting as a sidenote. Constituent opposes candidate, read all the garbage here? Not really the kind of thing we should aspire to have in biographies, surely?
You didn't write "You really think trivially related sites should be linked to articles on living people on the grounds that readers can make up their own minds?" And I wasn't responding to that, since that's not what you wrote. So I'm not sure where you got the impetus to write your response to my question.
And I'm not sure where you got the impetus to write your response to mine. So let's start again, shall we?
What do you think should be the circumstances under which we link an attack blog from an article on a living individual?
Guy (JzG)