Talk:MediaTransparency

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WHy is there a fear of putting labels on organizations in an encyclopedia? MediaTransparency is a liberal organization. IT is often cited as such in the mainstream press. It's not controversial to call the them liberal. It is simply a fact.--Tbeatty 07:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Unless they describe themselves as such (which I could not find on their about pages), I am reluctant to ascribe labels to any organization. Gamaliel 07:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I included it from their Kudos page. They CAN'T describe themselves that way or they wouldn't be 501(c)3. But they let others do it and they hihglight the description as who they are. The press ascribe labels when it clarifies a position. It is not a POV violation to use labels to describe organizaiton that have a POV. --Tbeatty 07:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Since they seem to have endorsed the WRI quote, I have no problem with describing them as such now. I am still against using press labels in most cases because their labels are not always accurate or NPOV. Gamaliel 07:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Advocacy groups are inherently POV. It is not accurate to let advocacy groups be presented as NPOV groups. --Tbeatty 17:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but we must insure that the labels we ascribe to them are accurate and NPOV to avoid the sort of POV "radical left" attribution you attempted to ascribe to the UCS in the George Bush article. Gamaliel 20:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)