[Foundation-l] "Filtering" ourselves is pointless

[Mike Godwin]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> We were going to have nonsense articles in Fox whatever we do - that's
> the way Fox is. Now we have an article on the BBC News website (a very
> respected news outlet, unlike Fox) saying there is infighting in
> Wikipedia which we wouldn't have had if Jimmy hadn't acted. I'm far
> more concerned about the BBC article than I would be any Fox story.
>

BBC got the story from Fox. There would have been a Fox story regardless,
and I wouldn't assume that BBC would not have picked up the more
sensationalistic story that Fox was hoping to run.


--Mike, who's been doing this media-ecology stuff for a couple of decades
now ;)