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In a way it's quite terrifying to consider the possibilities of bias in Wikipedia. After all, if you're not an expert on a particular subject, how are you to know that even an article which seems neutral in content and tone isn't subtly selecting for and emphasising a certain portrayal of its subject? Tricky stuff.


> After all, if you're not an expert on a particular subject, how are you to know that even an article which seems neutral in content and tone isn't subtly selecting for and emphasising a certain portrayal of its subject?

I need to echo my sibling commenters. You can't know that. You can't know that because it is; there's no other way for text to be.


s/wikipedia/any media/


And this is why trying to keep to some mythical "Neutral Point of View" is impossible.




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