On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I did. The fact that the site is sponsored by Conoco-Phillips would
> indicate that it deserves extra scrutiny, to be sure. So be sure to
> give
> the content extra scrutiny. I think it'd be foolish though to
> disregard
> it entirely because of the source or affiliation.
It's a tough issue. I certainly agree that the facts are more
important than the sponsorship. If the authors of the site had been up
front about who they were representing, I wouldn't have bothered to
comment. But my own take is that there are enough sites out there
which are up front about their sponsorship that I don't have time for
those that aren't. If a site obscures it's affiliation I think it is
reasonable to assume that it is deliberately misleading about other
things.
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