On 1/17/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/17/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Fans of the Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow were left stunned
yesterday
after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reported that he had died last
The word "reported" is very telling of how we are still misperceived. We're not a news site. Why do people think we are?
I actually spoke at some length about this with the person who called me - death notices often do in fact show up on Wikipedia before almost anywhere, e.g. the death of [[Andrea Dworkin]], where it went straight from a feminist mailing list to her article and only hit the media during the following day. Being *current* is one of our really strong suits, and the readers know this.
Andrea Dworkin's dead? Nobody tells me anything...