From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ray Saintonge
It's an interesting example of how errors manage
to creep in.
The article states that Meehan is a Senator; he's a
Representative. It also states that he had planned to limit
himself to four years in Congress; that should read four
terms. These are innocent errors that do not affect the
impact of the article. It's easy to spot these when you are
familiar with the issue, but it leaves one wondering about
fact checking and the reliability of what we read in the
newspapers. ;-)
When a newspaper publishes an article on some area of my oarticular
interest, written by a regular journalist, they INVARIABLY get some
important (to me) facts wrong. I've lost count of how often I've seen an APC
or SPG misidentified as "a tank" in photograph captions, for example.
Wikipedia is hardly exempt, as we all know. However, there's always that
[edit] button, and how often do we wish that there was something similar for
newspaper sites, eh?
Peter (Skyring)