[WikiEN-l] Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Reuters

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

Now that's just plain funny (well, not the dying part). They report on
the inaccuracies of some versions óf a wikipedia article (which we
warned about, btw) and then make a mistake themselves, a mistake that
could have easily been fixed had it been in wikinews.

People tend to complain when people misuse the word "irony". Honestly,
I'm not sure about the exact definition (last time I checked the
wikipedia article, it wasn't entirely clear), but this is it, right?

--Oskar

On 7/6/06, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> While Reuters initially meant to report on [[Kenneth Lay]]'s article
> on enwp and the pace of the edits on that page, it gave a nice insight
> into the mechanisms of information delivery:
>
> Version 1:
>
> http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-07-05T195309Z_01_N05296006_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-ENRON-LAY-WIKIPEDIA.XML
> Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
> Wed Jul 5, 2006 8:53 PM BST167
>
> Lay, 64, died of a heart attack early on Wednesday, a family
> spokeswoman said, just six weeks after a jury found him guilty of
> fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
>
> Version 2:
> http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-06T031803Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-258341-2.xml
> CORRECTED - Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
> Thu Jul 6, 2006 3:25 AM IST166
>
> Lay, 64, died of an apparent heart attack, according to a pastor at
> the Lay family's church in Houston. It was six weeks after a jury
> found him guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in
> U.S. history. A family spokeswoman said that Lay passed away early on
> Wednesday morning in Aspen.
>
>
>
> Version 2 contains a "sorry, we failed to make factchecking before
> sending it to the wires" header:
>
> "(Corrects and recasts paragraph two to show that a spokeswoman for
> the Lay family did not give the cause of Lay's death. It was given by
> another source.)"
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