On Friday 23 July 2004 15:52, blankfaze wrote:
Today's
featured article is a delightful read, but strikes me as
terribly one-sided. The adjectives applied to Yeltsin in this
conflict are consistently negative, and the advjectives applied to his
opponents are consistently positive. The reality is much more
complex.
I noticed that too, Jimbo. I was copyediting it yesterday and noticed
that it's pretty much demonising Yeltsin the whole way through. I
would have tried to NPOV it, but I really don't know too much about
the subject. Maybe in the future we should put together an NPOV crew
to check featured articles...
I've read the article and I don't see how does it demonise Yeltsin. The only
(possible) problem I see is that some statements are definitive (...this was
unconstitutional...) but, if they are widely accepted, possibly even admitted
by Yeltsin, even that is OK.