Talk:Christian Science Monitor
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Informative and reasonably well-written. Needs some grammar editing (which I can do) and some NPOVing (which I can't, as an Aussie who's only read the CSM a couple of times). --Robert Merkel 05:50 16 May 2003 (UTC)
Tossed in some NPOVing and interesting tidbits. If you haven't read a lot of the CSM, don't assume that the newspaper and the religion have anything to do with each other. The CSM is run with an NPOV-like editorial attitude in order to improve the general reputation of the Christian Science movement.User:clarka
Needed serious reworking; the Home Forum (separate link should be deleted, unnecessary) is a general family article different from the religious article, Eddy really had one son (the other was an adulthood adoption), plus a bunch more stuff. Also reworked paragraph integration heavily and filled in internal stuff non-adherents might not be conversant with. The paper's much touted NPOV fell off heavily in the 90's with an intense degree of staff turnover around and after the media expansion episode. Should probably fill a few details more: the first TV program was a half-hour monthly thing, then a nightly thing with John Hart on the Discovery Channel, then the superstation undertaking. Chris Rodgers 12:27, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Well, I tried to add in some current information on the situation there. Feedback appreciated. And how do I add a comment to the above thread?
- You appear to have managed okay. To sign a comment with your name and time/date, type four tilde characters, they'll translate when the page saves. Indent levels, add a colon or more in front of comment; others, search site or edit/observe/cancel out. Chris Rodgers 07:13, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Based on the positive comments about CSM in this article I went to their web site and read the currently-front-page article entitled A Marine company and a month in Fallujah. The article is FAR from NPOV. The slant was clear; if one of the soldiers mentioned professed religious faith, he was painted as a saint. If a soldier let it be known he was not religious then they always made sure to include information about his past crimes, body piercings, tatoos, and heavy metal music. I am a Christian myself, but I also know NPOV when I see it and the CSM is definitely not NPOV. This article needs to be modified to reflect that fact. If none more qualified than I will do it then I will certainly undertake it myself. --David Battle 23:17, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- If you reread the article, you'll find my mention of significant failures at journalistic integrity at variance with the marketing spin there now. It's nothing like the paper it was even twenty years ago. Chris Rodgers 07:39, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
