Jimmy Wales
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That doesn't diminish the quality of the source.
So, for example, I live here in London in the UK.
We have The Telegraph, which is a generally right-leaning but quality newspaper.
We have The Guardian, generally left-leaning but quality newspaper.
Hopefully, the facts, as you read the articles and you glean through it, the facts should be reliable and solid.
But you have to be very careful as an editor to tease out, okay, what are the facts that are agreed upon here?
And what are the things that are opinions on those facts?
And that's, you know, that's an editorial job.
It's never perfect and it's never easy.
It runs me.
Well, in the best cases, what happens and what should happen always is, take a controversial issue like abortion.
Obviously, if you think about a kind and thoughtful Catholic priest and a kind and thoughtful Planned Parenthood activist, they're never going to agree about abortion.
But probably they can come together, because I said they're kind and thoughtful,
and say, okay, but we can report on the dispute.
So, rather than trying to say abortion is a sin or abortion is a human right, you could say Catholic Church position is this, and the critics have responded thusly.
You'll start to hear a little of the Wikipedia style.
Because I believe that that's what a reader really wants.
They don't want to come and get one side of the story.
They want to come and say, okay, wait, hold on.
I actually want to understand what people are arguing about.