On 9/6/06, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote:
- A man who posted nude pictures of himself on websites whose domains
he registered advertising himself as a $200-an-hour gay prostitute can not be identified as a prostitute.
Was this reported in a reliable source (this person being called a prostitute?). If not, this is OR.
Yes, by multiple mainstream reliable sources. And as Bryan pointed out, he's calling himself a prostitute by posting an ad advertising his wares.
- The Columbia Journalism Review is a reliable source. A blog run by
the Columbia Journalism Review on the website of the Columbia Journalism Review is not.
Only if the Columbia Journalism Review has editorial control of the blog. Otherwise, I would agree that it is not a RS.
Exactly the sort of distinction reasonable editors should be making, but these people are just invoking RS and saying blog=unreliable regardless of the source.
This is ungrounded paranoia. If you think that this new "unit" is a threat to WP, join in and help make it better, as some of us are attempting to do.
If you've had prior dealings with some of these editors, you might not think I was being paranoid. I'd rather overreact now than have to deal with a bigger problem down the line. And one of the reasons I'm posting here is to get more editors to become active in this matter now, to help make things better, exactly what you suggest.