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

[Ray Saintonge]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> Quoting David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>   
>> "Teach the controversy" is a phrase that encapsulates NPOV perfectly
>> IMO. Except it's been popularised by advocates of Intelligent Design
>> and is strongly associated with them.
>>
>> Is there a way to put it into [[WP:NPOV]] that wouldn't seem to be 
>> pushing ID?
>>     
> 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).
It's always hard to achieve balance when the kid at one end of the 
teeter-totter is obese.


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