On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On 4/19/12, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > "You do realise that there have been over 5,000 newspaper articles on our > > company in the last 10 years, and only three of them mention that product > > recall?" > > That might seem like a good point, but really, articles shouldn't be > constructed from surveys of newspaper articles. I know they are, in > practice, but they really shouldn't be. What is needed is something > beyond that, some indication that someone with the right credentials > has sat down and sorted through things and come to some sort of > independent conclusion. Some newspaper journalists do this, but not > many do. Indeed, but there needs to be some measure of due weight, and for many companies, newspaper articles and primary sources are all there is. Andreas _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
