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Why is this important?

Anyone can publish on the web!
Information is rarely neutral. Data is used in selective ways and it generally represents a point of view.
All web pages are created with a purpose in mind.
You can always assume a certain amount of bias.

  July 15, 2004 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Services/Tutorials/WebEval/objectivity.html
  Jean Alexander, Head of Hunt Reference, jeana@andrew.cmu.edu
  © 2004 Carnegie Mellon Libraries