Comments on: Israel/Palestine in the Media https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/israelpalestine-in-the-media/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:56:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Matt https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/israelpalestine-in-the-media/#comment-6058 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:56:59 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=2376#comment-6058 I applaud you for taking on one of the ‘third rail’ topics in your factchecking quest, and look forward to the rest. Wikipedia is an interesting source for many reasons, one of which is that it’s crowd sourced nature and attempted neutrality make it more interesting to critique than a clearly partisan source.

One thing I’ve thought about is which players in a contentious, decades-long debate might actually benefit from politicizing conversation to the point that non-extremists stay as far away as possible.

At some point, maybe after you’ve both finished your theses, you should chat with Shahar Ronen about his comparative Wikipedia study.

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