Talk:MediaTransparency

label

WHy is there a fear of putting labels on organizations in an encyclopedia? MediaTransparency is a liberal organization. IT is often cited as such in the mainstream press. It's not controversial to call the them liberal. It is simply a fact.--Tbeatty 07:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Unless they describe themselves as such (which I could not find on their about pages), I am reluctant to ascribe labels to any organization. Gamaliel 07:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I included it from their Kudos page. They CAN'T describe themselves that way or they wouldn't be 501(c)3. But they let others do it and they hihglight the description as who they are. The press ascribe labels when it clarifies a position. It is not a POV violation to use labels to describe organizaiton that have a POV. --Tbeatty 07:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Since they seem to have endorsed the WRI quote, I have no problem with describing them as such now. I am still against using press labels in most cases because their labels are not always accurate or NPOV. Gamaliel 07:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Advocacy groups are inherently POV. It is not accurate to let advocacy groups be presented as NPOV groups. --Tbeatty 17:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but we must insure that the labels we ascribe to them are accurate and NPOV to avoid the sort of POV "radical left" attribution you attempted to ascribe to the UCS in the George Bush article. Gamaliel 20:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Need a trusted and accurate source in order to describe an organization as "left leaning" and "political" -

Cursor.org does not describe itself this way, https://www.cursor.org/about-us
so we need a credible source otherwise this is a NPOV issue 2600:8800:7980:D870:1192:3A58:4E98:8070 (talk) 20:16, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on MediaTransparency. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20110601192253/http://old.mediatransparency.org:80/story.php?storyID=249 to http://old.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=249

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 22:29, 26 February 2016 (UTC)