[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny - Harry Reid
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Feb 23 06:56:42 UTC 2006
Sue Anne Reed wrote:
>I don't know how Wikipedia is going to handle this as it continues to
>become a more widely read source of information. People, especially
>politicians, are going to want to be able to have a voice in that
>information. How do we balance that with NPOV? On the Abramoff / Reid
>situation, I don't think you'll be able to reach NPOV. Folks on the
>right and possibly centrists are going to point to certain facts and say
>that it shows Reid is connected to the lobbying scandal and that he's a
>hypocrite for saying he's not. Folks on the left are going to call it a
>giant smear campaign by the right to try and downplay their culpability.
>Has any news outlet reached consensus on this one?
>
This kind of issue will continue to face us regularly with different
people. The issues must be faced directly; you don't achieve NPOV by
avoidance,
Ec
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