So true. Jayson Blair, anyone? And how many other errors/omissions/biases on the NYT could we list if we tried?
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Mayer Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:00 PM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] NYT to forbid use of Wikipedia as a reference?
--- Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
You mean the "Paper of Record" has been using WP to check their facts? Don't they realize how frequently we use *them* as a source? Shades of the Cheney/Miller echo chamber, geez...
Very, very good point. We should work up a page that lists all their big errors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times#Recent_controversies is a good start.
-- mav
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