Steve Bennett wrote:
From the article:
Last November, false information was appended to the Wiki biography
of American journalist John Seigenthaler Sr., suggesting he played a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The erroneous facts made their way into the mainstream media as truth.
Is this true? I hadn't heard that anyone had actually relayed the information as truth. There was speculation about how many millions of internet viewers had believed the article (without any of them correcting it), but I hadn't heard this.
It is 100% false. The simple fact remains that *now* this little tidbit is permanently on the Internet, because *Seigtenthaler* published in USA Today and went on multiple television news programs to talk about it.
Had it done nothing, it would be like any of millions of other little vandalisms of Wikipedia that are fixed and in the history, but never to be seen again.
There are other factual errors as well. It is not true that "Last November, false information was appended" -- in fact the false information was *removed* in *October*. Other outlets like to report that it took Seigenthaler 4 months to get us to correct it -- whereas it was corrected within minutes of course.