Talk:News media and the Vietnam War

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[edit] Failure of NPOV?

"Upon investigation, however, the verity of all three of these suppositions tends to collapse."

This sentance to me seems a little opinionated. I suggest it gets re-worded or removed or cited with a credible source. Rhetth (talk) 01:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• The author suggests that you read the article, which proves the "verity" of the statement. RM Gillespie (talk) 16:17, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• The reader may have already read the proof, but since the conclusion comes before the supporting statements, the reader thought that the conclusion needed to include the fact that the collapse was due to the research of historians, or include the main references of the historians' respective works. Rhetth (talk) 03:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• Excellent. Then re-write the lead to suit yourself. This is, after all, Wikipedia. RM Gillespie (talk) 11:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• True, but since this article is mostly your work, I find it a little more equitable and forgiving if there is a little discussion about it. I've had my work butchered by people who are being "bold" but didn't research why I did what I did, so in case there's something I'm missing, I just want to put it up for discussion. Rhetth (talk