[WikiEN-l] Blogosphere takes notice of Reuters confusion

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/13/06, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Reuters offers correction to Wikipedia slam. junger writes "Reuters
> put out a hit piece on Wikipedia, saying that the encyclopedia wasn't
> credible in 'covering' the breaking news of the death of Enron's Ken
> Lay, but then Reuters has to correct their own story because they
> couldn't properly identify one of their sources."

What's actually apparent in all this is that Wikipedia was one of the
first places the Reuters journalist turned to when he needed to write
an obituary. And he got upset when the information kept changing on
him.

Steve