Talk:An Empire of Their Own

Quotes vs. paraphrasing
Hi .. I just created this article. I would appreciate any suggestions on the layout: as you might notice, the article is heavy on quotes from the book. In my first draft of the article, I had very few quotes, and summarized the book in my own words. But I changed it to the current quote-heavy style for two reasons:

1) The book's author is pretty darn readable, and I found that his own words were more focused and interesting than the paraphrasings I created.

and

2) The role of Jews in Hollywood is a bit controversial because it has been used as fodder for a lot of anti-semitic diatribes (as pointed out in this book and elsewhere). If an editor uses their own words in this article, it could give the appearance that the editor endorses the points or is somehow endorsing anti-semitism.  By using Gabler's own words (he is a notable film critic) it makes the article more neutral and less prone to abuse.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions. --Noleander (talk) 23:12, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Why are you worried about anti-antisemitism? That's not the right approach when it comes to create an Encyclopedia. The role of Jews in Hollywood, as far as I know, has been covered generically behind Art and white artists, which is a grave mistake. For instance, when someone criticizes the excess of white, heterosexual and patriarchal patterns of Hollywood they are misled by the Jewish propaganda, that is, the Jewish Hollywood owners make Hollywood look like white, heterosexual and patriarchal, when in fact these patterns are created by the Jews themselves through the film industry they own! These facts must be expound the way they are, unless you think that, in order to protect the Jews, we can freely put the responsibility for their acts on other races. 2804:214:8797:13E:A380:73D8:2BC5:CD7C (talk) 18:16, 9 May 2024 (UTC)