On 7/9/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Haha! the BBC prints patent lies, or completely fabricates quotes? I don't think so.
Didn't somebody post to the list not too long ago an interesting piece on how the BBC frequently distorts science stories?
Moral of the story: Never assume a source is right. Just attribute the claim to the source and let the reader decide for themselves. That's how [[WP:NPOV]] works.
Oh yeah, and as others have said, The Register is actually quite good for technical stuff - their reports on computing are often quite good. I don't see why we should issue a blanket ban on particular sources just because they have proven to be wrong on a number of occasions. In such an event, their reputation should precede them - and we should trust our readers to know better than to trust a claim printed in, say, the BBC website, over a counter-claim published in the Lancet.
Johnleemk