Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 19 April 2012 16:01, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I liked Andreas's way of putting this earlier: Positive bias and advertorials *can* be odious, but activist editing with a negative bent

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 April 2012 17:07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Historically this is inaccurate, as the article states, the original phrasing was to abstain from doing harm, which is significantly different insofar as it implies a willed action. This didn't at all refer to medical

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 April 2012 17:07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Historically this is inaccurate, as the article states, the original phrasing was to abstain from doing harm, which is significantly different