On 22 Mar 2007 at 19:28, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:

There seems to have developed a rather stock story about Wikipedia. You'd think these journalists would want to present something at least a little bit interesting, maybe unique, but they all seem to go back to the, "And then I put in false information! Look, even I could do it! Ha!" and end it there. I'm not sure if they are really all imbeciles, or if they just assume their audience is made up of imbeciles, but it is sad to say the least. When I wrote for the high school newspaper we had higher standards than that.

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Wikipedia is hardly the first thing that has spawned a "stock story" that journalists use repeatedly. For decades now, coverage of anything pertaining to comic books has gone into predictable molds like "Bam! Pow! Zap! Comics aren't just for kids any more!" or "Biff! Sock! Boom! Old comics are worth big bucks!"