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Thread #161497   Message #3837949
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-Feb-17 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail
Subject: RE: BS: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail
Well as I think I may have mentioned before, I occasionally pick up a free copy of the Daily Mail with my Waitrose card (I could get the Guardian, but I already get that, or the Times or Telegraph, but I already have enough bog paper). Yesterday's front page was about the soldier who murdered an injured insurgent in cold blood in Afghanistan. By the time you've read the first two tabloid-length paragraphs of the "report" it's crystal clear that the paper is solidly on the side of the convicted murderer. When I want the news I want the news, not the news mixed up with someone's opinion of it. I want to see that only in separate, clearly-defined opinion columns. Of course, the Mail isn't unique in employing that dishonest approach, and it's why it and its fellow tabloids can't be trusted. So if Wiki wants to exclude the Mail, that's fine by me. I wouldn't expect Wiki to glean aspects of education policy from the Bash Street Kids in the Beano either.