Talk:Joseph Farah
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How to determine Farah's credibility? What does "intelligence contacts" mean? Incidently, the commentary from his readership was to me, almost, if not more bone chilling than his al Qaida nuke story. I hope it is not true...
ZabMom: I just want to say that the article you had about him was defamatory. This is the problem with the internet. It seems that when I look up right of center personalities there is always something extreme about them. But when I look up someone like "Al Franken" he is made out to be mainstream. This is unfair. Also if you want to make Farah out to be a murderer you should at least cite where he made these statements.
There appears to be multiple edits to this page presenting rather extreme accusations against Farah. While most would agree that he is very right-wing (and I am certainly no fan of the man), an extreme claim like "he advocated the nuclear annihilation of Mecca and Medina" needs to be sourced with proper links, or it shouldn't be here at all. --Soultaco 19:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] A bit biased, perhaps?
Being a bisexual socialist, I can say with all certainty that I despise everything WND stands for. However, this article does seem a bit biased against him. I would normally expect people of his type to be fairly far-right, but this seems a bit extreme. Some sources would be appreciated, if you are able to get ahold of any.
[edit] Very Biased, virtualy no sources
This stub is an almost verbatim copy and paste of the article presented on sourcewatch.org. The article listed there takes the majority of it's information from conwebwatch.tripod.com, a liberal watchdog site who targets conservative news sources. This is hardly a balanced view and does not provide an unbiased source base. Furthermore, charges of racism and extreme adherence to republican agendas need to be documented before accusations can be leveled. When reading through Worldnetdaily.com, I found the articles to be as equally critical of President Bush as they are of other topics. Especially as in the case of the nomination of Harriet Miers as shown"HERE", as well as in other articles. While it is uncontrovertibly true that Farah and his World Net Daily site are definitely right-leaning, to generalize such views into the categories of racism and bigotry are hardly befitting an unbiased encyclopedia. The role of Wikipedia is to inform, not coerce. Further revisions need to be made to the article in order maintain an informative stance. --Coldbourne 28 October 2005
[edit] Does He Deserve His Own Article?
It says on WorldNetDaily that most of their content isn't produced in house, and from reading this article, i'm not convinced that he's notable on his own if he doesn't write that much of the reason why he's notable. I might be wrong, but I have no interest in expanding it. Karmafist 07:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I would agree with you, but I cannot find any sources that substantiate that claim. A look at the World Net Daily site seems to indicate that he writes his own column almost daily, listed as Joseph Farahs Between the Lines. Also, a Google search has a good many articles listed on various sites as originating with Worldnetdaily.com. This Site claims that World Net Daily has been listed as one of the "stickiest" sites; purporting that CNN, NBC and others use Farah's articles on their own sites. However, I cannot find the source of that information. --Coldbourne 07:34, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge removed
Article expanded about personal unrelated to WND. The individual is now more distinct from the WND webpage.
This article is so obviously biased it is sickening, and this is coming from a staunch conservative. Unless somebody can submit a nuetral article, this one should be deleted.
[edit] More Detail Needed
This site seems a bit slanted towards the leftist perspective. Someone who is independent needs to revamp this entire site. Also, some more background info on his education and childhood would be desirable.
[edit] NPOV completely lacking
The bias present in this page absolutely reeks. Much of this page contains text copied almost verbatim from ConWebWatch, an organization that is unapologetic about being critical toward WorldNetDaily and other conservative media. Said text has an inherently negatively-critical (as opposed to simply analytically-critical) tone which has no place in an encyclopedia article meant to take a NPOV.
It might also violate the copyright of ConWebWatch for their text to be reposted almost verbatim here.
I see from the history that an anonymous user (63.168.141.31) tried repeatedly in 2006 to remove said text, replacing it with a text that, while shorter and less detailed, was relatively NPOV and (IMHO) much more appropriately toned for an encyclopedia, than what is there currently, only to have said replacement reverted. (It's possible that this anonymous user was Farah himself - in an article on WorldNetDaily he writes "no matter how many times I correct the record, some Wikipedia jokers decide they know me better than me" implying that he tried to change the page himself, only to have it reverted.)
In addition, the page contains very poor grammar and at least a few markup errors; however, given the NPOV and copyright issues, any cleanup effort would better be spent on a total rewrite. At the very least, the NPOV tag should be readded to the page.
