2008/10/2 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
The flattering picture of media power in the hands of
WP (we didn't run Byrne's line on short >selling, so it was ignored by the Wall
Street Journal and New York Times?) deserves a short >response. As in: "Come
on!" We're the unique reliable source, now?
Charles
No but we are one people read. With tightening budgets Journalists are
having less and less time for background research and fact checking.
So when they move outside their core fields of competence there
appears to be an increasing tendency to turn to wikipedia.
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geni