2009/5/7 William King williamcarlking@gmail.com:
Fox News picks up Reuters story regarding the late French composer Maurice Jarre: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519283,00.html Reuters interviewed Shane Fitzgerald, the Irish student who made up the false quote on Jarre's Wikipedia biography. Your thoughts???
So far the coverage I've seen has been quite sensible - *every* journalist uses Wikipedia as their handy quick universal backgrounder, and the stories I've seen have blamed the obituary writers for not checking references.
- d.