[WikiEN-l] Neutral Point of View in three words

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 17:37:17 UTC 2007


On 14/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:

> Well, when ID people use the phrase "Teach the controversy" the primary issue
> seems to be that they want something like NPOV without the undue weight
> clause.
> They don't want a NPOV, they want "balance" (in the classic way that so many
> reporters seem to think they are being neutral if they present all sides
> equally quoting exactly as many words from people in all groups regardless of
> the issue or if there is a consensus or anything of the sort).


Yeah. But it's a nice phrase I think could do with rehabilitating.


- d.



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