Talk:Media blackout

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Removed link about The Christian and Newsom murders. There's no evidence that any "blackout" (which is a racist term) is in effect, maybe the news is just not interesting, and posting such a link here seems very racist to me.

  • "Blackout" is a racist term??? New one on me. I thought its etymology was from covering a printed page with black ink to literally make the page black. Or are you suggesting that any term which has "black" in it must somehow be racist? No opinion about the murders having a news blackout. LaughingVulcan Laugh With Me / Logical Entries 00:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added Fact Tags

Added several fact tags for unreferenced allegations of media blackouts throughout history. LaughingVulcan Laugh With Me / Logical Entries 01:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder

Removed link again, not because of the Truth of it, but because no reference was cited for including it as a "See Also" example per WP:V:

"Be careful not to go too far on the side of not upsetting editors by leaving unsourced information in articles for too long, or at all in the case of information about living people. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has said of this: 'I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.'"

I don't want to get involved in the edit war. If someone wants to restore it, fine and great and be my guest. But I'd request that it be restored and not reverted (to avoid removing the other Fact requests,) and if it is restored, please add a citation demonstrating how the murder connects to a media blackout. Thanks! LaughingVulcan Laugh With Me / Logical Entries 01:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Sigh... So much for hoping that the Talk page would be used for discussion... it was just added again, with no citation. Rather than plain reverting it, I'm going to add the word "alleged," and let the link stand, along with a note to the contributing editor this time around. LaughingVulcan Laugh w/ Me or Logical Entries 17:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)