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Media bias: Wikipedia has repeatedly removed reliably sourced information about how hunting...
wordpress ^ | July 2, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 07/02/2018 1:03:36 PM PDT by grundle

Media bias: Wikipedia has repeatedly removed reliably sourced information about how hunting endangered animals, when done properly, makes their populations get bigger

Wikipedia has repeatedly removed the following reliably sourced information from its Trophy hunting article. (The deletion history can be seen here, here, here, and here.)

In 2015, a Texas hunter who had won an auction paid $350,000 for legal permission to kill an endangered black rhinoceros in Namibia. The Washington Post wrote the following about the particular animal that was chosen for this kill: “The bull, Knowlton said, was a problem in his own herd. The animal was too old to breed but so aggressive that it had already killed calves, cows and and other male rhinoceroses in a jealous rage.” The money was used to fund conservation efforts. Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism had approved of the kill. The meat was eaten by residents of a nearby village.

In 2017, a hunter paid $35,000 for permission to kill one bongo at a ranch in Texas. The ranch’s manager said this was enough money to feed the ranch’s approximately 30 remaining bongos for an entire year.

In 2017, wildlife experts said the ranches in Texas had more blackbuck antelope than their native country of India.

In 2018, a hunter from Kentucky legally killed an adult male giraffe in South Africa. Because this particular male was too old to breed, and because it had previously killed three younger adult males who were capable of breeding, this particular kill caused the population to get bigger, not smaller.

The above content is notable, relevant, and reliably sourced. There is no legitimate reason to not include it in the article.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: animals; antigunpropaganda; gamemanagement; hunting; mediabias; trophyhunting; veganagitprop

1 posted on 07/02/2018 1:03:37 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

So put it back.


2 posted on 07/02/2018 1:05:41 PM PDT by mlo
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To: grundle

This shows the bias in Wikipedia toward legal hunting.


3 posted on 07/02/2018 1:07:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: grundle

Remember a few years ago, when the media pushed the Cecil the Lion story???? Jimmy Kimmel cried about it.

Cecil was allegedly some national icon of Zimbabwe. Turned out that nobody in Zimbabwe had heard of Cecil. It also turned out the situation is more complex than the media told us. It turned out that these legal safari hunting events help support many people in sub-Saharan Africa, and actually help with the conservation of species, as I recall.

Point is, the media push certain stories and leave out important context and details, as they try to get a certain reaction to a story.


4 posted on 07/02/2018 1:16:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: grundle

Wikipedia is incredibly leftist. I was an editor there for about 2 months, then they banned me. All I did was post sourced temperature graphs which showed there has been no global warming for 20 years.

I also wanted to repost a topic, “Global Warming,” which got merged into “Climate Change.” Two obviously seperate subjects. Was banned before I could even start.


5 posted on 07/02/2018 1:40:12 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Donate to Mike Flynn's legal fund: https://mikeflynndefensefund.org/)
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To: grundle

Wikipedia is biased? GASP! Tell me it isn’t so!

In other breaking news, fire is hot and water is wet.


6 posted on 07/02/2018 1:48:49 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

One “editor” (censor for the Wikipedia State thought control dictatorship) deleted or edited more than 12,000 separate entries on Climate Change and the sekf-called catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. And that was just one censor of many.


7 posted on 07/02/2018 1:50:40 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: grundle

BUMP


8 posted on 07/02/2018 1:51:59 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

The CIA, the agency that invented the term “conspiracy theory” is working 24-7 to make sure Wikipedia debunks any and all independent analysis on just about anything.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/08/24/the-term-conspiracy-theory-was-invented-by-the-cia-in-order-to-prevent-disbelief-of-official-government-stories/

http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/the-dark-side-of-wikipedia


9 posted on 07/02/2018 2:03:33 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Long ago I learned this of wikipedia. My first experience of making an edit suggestion was the LAST time I tried.

When I was writing the early drafts of my books, I would occasionally go there to see if any pertinent references were sourced; I never found a single cross-linked reference which was usable.

I refuse to ever cite wiki for anything and the only citation I’ve ever made of it was for the purpose of highlighting its hypocrisy.

I don’t see the point of arguing about what libs are doing at a lib site. I’m refuse to be stressing over the likes of them and mock others for using wiki and snopes alike, to state nothing of those who watch 3-5 letter news.

If they want to circle-jerk to reinforce their own biases, have at it. But no child of mine would ever be permitted to read their BS: It’s lazy & unforgivable to not have a Boolean search ability.


10 posted on 07/02/2018 3:50:14 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Some years back, Congress and Obama removed the restriction the CIA had on propagandizing on American soil.

Looks like they went from 0 - 60, full-throttle.


11 posted on 07/02/2018 3:55:41 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
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