Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject: Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar |
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The following article may ruffle some feathers in left-landia. Wikipedia, a favorite disinformation playtoy, is getting some long overdue circumspection from a surprising source. Like anything from the NY Times, however, one must wonder at their motivation. Perhaps lashing out as best they can against the internet, their greatest competitor and primary antagonist?
| Quote: | Rewriting History
Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: December 4, 2005
ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true?
The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."
"Nothing was ever proven," the biography added.
Mr. Seigenthaler discovered that the false information had been on the site for several months and that an unknown number of people had read it, and possibly posted it on or linked it to other sites.
If any assassination was going on, Mr. Seigenthaler (who is 78 and did edit The Tennessean) wrote last week in an op-ed article in USA Today, it was of his character.
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For Mr. Seigenthaler, whose biography on Wikipedia has since been corrected, the lesson is simple: "We live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research, but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects."
NY Times Week In Review - cont'd |
Last edited by Me#1You#10 on Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:22 am; edited 1 time in total |
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