[WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Fri Mar 18 20:11:48 UTC 2011


> Did he say he was working for Koch's PR firm?

No, and it is still not clear if that was his assignment from the firm.
I've left a note on his user talk page asking him to clarify this if he
returns to editing.

Fred

>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>
>> > 'Being really good at it' is subversion when they aren't actually
>> really
>> > good at it, they just disregard the rules. I wont speak for George,
>> but
>> > yes,
>> > doing it in secret makes me think they *are* adding bias. If this is
>> > upstanding, good work, they would do it in view with open
>> communication.
>> > Transparency breeds accountability.
>>
>> In this particular case, other than some clumsy meatpuppeting which
>> rang
>> all the alarm bells, nothing was done in secret. The editor declared
>> his
>> interest in his first edit.
>>
>> Fred
>>
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