[WikiEN-l] Slashdot article

[David Goodman]

This is naive. A NYT article on a subject reports a number of things,
some facts, some their interpretations to various extents. They will
furthermore publish an umber of articles as an story develops. . It is
necessary to select what one wishes to use from among this, and to
harmonize it with what others report, and to set it within context.
Staying strictly within the sources, most important topics of
controversy can be turned into expressions of undiluted POV merely by
selective quotation of reliable sources. there is no mechanical
formula for writing article, any more than for reporting .It take both
intelligence, and the determination to do a fair job. One can also use
intelligence and skill to do an unfair job.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

>> ---
>
> And that part is exactly -why- we require sources, including to change
> something at a subject's request. If reliable sources indicate
> something, and the subject says "It isn't so" but we've got nothing to
> verify that, we can't simply say "Oh, alright," and change the
> article.
>
> One thing we -can- do in such a case, as stated earlier, is to change
> that particular part of the article to a quoted form, e.g. "The New
> York Times reported in 2006 that foo did bar", rather than "Foo did
> bar <ref name="nyt">". In that case, our statement -cannot- be
> inaccurate, provided that the New York Times really did make such a
> report-we're simply in that case asserting that such a report was
> made.

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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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