Talk:Business Wire
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[edit] POV problems
Sounds like a big ad to me.
Several sentences in this short article seem to be a major violation of WP:NPOV. Emphasis mine on the following quotes:
- "With more than four decades of experience and leadership"
- "most trusted source for journalists"
- "the first news distribution service to make groundbreaking strides towards truly embracing the new global community"
Rather than just jerk the statements, I figured I should get a second opinion. They certainly sound like marketing, though, and I'll probably edit them if nobody else has a better idea soon. --Closeapple 10:19, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm in the PR business and prefer BW, but those sound like content-free marketing modifiers to me. I'd delete the phrases in quotes and go directly to the first in China (which is a fact, not an opinion). 206.170.148.247 20:12, 23 January 2006 (UTC)emm
Although someone keeps adding it back, MarketWire is not a main competitor of Business Wire no more than several other services without the scope of services or market share are. Business Wire competes with PR Newswire in multiple markets and in multiple product categories. Combined, these services carry 95% of corporate news releases in the US. Many releases carried on other services have been rejected by the majors, such as items without proper attribution.
- OK. I put it back once because it looked like it was being removed with bias (PR Newswire still has it listed), but it could be that someone biased towards MarketWire added it. --Closeapple 09:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
While I didn't write the initial description and don't know who did, I made numerous edits to remove POV from the descriptions. I hope this makes it more accurate and provides further detail into the service and industry.
