Talk:Pat Dollard

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Contents 1 Sources 2 Opinion in this article 3 Encyclopedius? 4 cleaned it up some more! 5 definition of patrolling 6 More NPOV 7 Controversy over "Controversy" 8 Doc being produced by the Scotts?

[edit] Sources

• This article needs sources. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 02:48, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion in this article

The phrase "Unlike the majority of reporters who stay in hotels in Baghdad" is an unfair assessment.

[edit] Encyclopedius?

deleted some self promotion.

"Deleted some self promotion" ? Apparently not enough - the entire entry is still here. Wow. What a whitewash someone did! Dannyinla 02:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)dannyinla

The term "in a less than heroic light" is strictly opinion and is posted by a user who has discussed his anti-dollard, anti-republican political bias on other websites. this is an intentional defamation by a political partisan. but wikipedia has always been anti-conservative, hasn't it. no wonder edits are locked. entirely political censorship in the service of a smear campaign.

What are you defining as self-promotion? How do you know it was written by Dollard? Your assesment is ridiculous. As for the statement "uunlike the majority of reporters who stay in hotels in Baghdad, it is 100% factually correct. The majority of reporters stay in hotels in Baghdad. Clearly your issue is with Dollard's politics, not facts. Or perhaps you have "other issues". Regardless, you are not allowed to randomly censor facts.

[edit] cleaned it up some more!

Cleaned it up.

[edit] definition of patrolling

found at the link below. did this gentleman "patrol" or ride along and film patrols? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/patrol —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.59.75.34 (talk) 21:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] More NPOV

Removed the sentence "He has been widely attacked by the left for the pro-war stance displayed in early clips of his documentary series 'Young Americans.'" after doing a Google search and finding nothing critical in the first 30 results; created a Criticism section that mentions the VF article. Kayobee 22:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

This is pure bullshit. He is attacked and criticized in all the first results including Washington Post, the new york times, etc. the above is a pure lie.

Please give examples. I just ran the google search again -- the worst line I found was a quote by a former client, Billy Bob Thornton: "Pat Dollard is the only person I know in Hollywood who's crazier than me" -- which from the contxt sounds more admiring/impressed than critical. There's not even a result from the NYT until the 3rd page, and that's just a filmography and links to articles from previous years. Kayobee 05:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy over "Controversy"

Someone (or several someones) has repeatedly deleted the Controversy (nee Criticism) section of this article. I believe the section should be included, based on the fact that the controversy turns up immediately in a Google search of the name.

Moreover, the justifications used for these deletions are quite weak, I believe: "user is known dollard critic" (I'd never heard of Dollard till the day I edited the article), "misstates legality of option deal" (???), "headline controversy intentional defamation" (controversy was substituted for criticism because it seemed more neutral).

Do other editors agree that the section should be included, or disagree? Kayobee 22:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Doc being produced by the Scotts?

I can't find a single reference to Dollard's documentary now being produced by Tony and Ridley Scott. Unless someone knows where this information comes from, it should probably be removed. Tony Scott's interest in producing a fictionalized account of Dollard's life is verifiable.--Cank 18:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)