On 30 Mar 2007 at 15:47, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Wikipedia's reference desk gets a nice mention on Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/30/nyt_changes_backdate.html
It also claims that the New York Times changed a published article without mentioning it on the page or issuing a correction. That's very interesting in the context of the recent discussion on the reliability and durability of web-based citations.
Shades of 1984...
On 3/30/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 30 Mar 2007 at 15:47, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Shades of 1984...
No kidding! That they wouldn't even mention the correction is really disturbing.
--Ryan
On 3/30/07, Ryan Wetherell renardius@gmail.com wrote:
No kidding! That they wouldn't even mention the correction is really disturbing.
Yeah, it's not completely embarrassing for them either, I mean their source _was_ wrong. Not that they shouldn't actually find primary sources, but you know, it's just a newspaper ;)
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]