On 12/02/2008, Angela Anuszewski psu256@member.fsf.org wrote:
I just was looking at http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-primarytracker-html,0,4...
and saw that in one of the boxes on the page, the word "superdelegates" was a hyperlink - imagine my surprise when I clicked on it and it took me to the Wikipedia article.
Does anyone worry that if newspapers make a habit of doing that, their readers will look at Wikipedia as being as authoritative as the newspaper and not bother to check into the article's accuracy? After all, if the paper considers it authoritative enough to link to, it must be so, right?
It's better than them stating things they've read on Wikipedia as fact in their articles without saying where they got the info - at least this way readers stand a chance of being able to correctly determine the reliability of what they're reading.