[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Fri Nov 17 11:14:18 UTC 2017


On Friday 17 November 2017, Steve Doerr wrote:
>
> Anyway, it's sad to see that WeeklyOSM has abandoned all attempt at
> impartiality.

Huh?

"perceived by many as unreasonable as before" is a clear statement of 
distancing themselves from this opinion.

Impartiality does not mean you have to present every marginal opinion on 
a matter equally.  Supplementing a news item on a discussion with a 
summary of the results of the discussion is just good journalism.

My criticism would be that "unreasonable" - while it applies - is not 
the main impression people have got from Yuri here.  I could list a 
number of words i would find fitting but stating them here would 
probably be considered offensive by some.  I could imagine the 
weeklyOSM editors were looking for a word that avoids this and ended up 
with "unreasonable".

And George Bernard Shaw's idea does not work with any of these other, 
more fitting terms - sorry. ;-)

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/



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