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

[Andrew Lih]

Mathias,

Using the same Reuters story, CNN downgraded Wikipedia from
'confusion' to 'reeling'. Oh CNN, how far you have strayed from your
original standards...

Lay's death sends Wikipedia reeling
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Posted: 2246 GMT (0646 HKT)
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/05/lay.wikipedia.reut/



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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