It sounds like they misunderstood even the basic facts of the story.
(Gosh, newspaper prints false information under veneer of truth!
But... I thought these things only happened on the internet!)
FF
On 2/3/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> 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.
Steve
On 2/3/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not particularly found of that last line
"Try to add something and see
how it lasts", but at least he hammers on the fact you always need to cross
check and that even in a class of ninth-graders cooperative editing works
better than one thinks.
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