[WikiEN-l] More on Wikipedia Review, and Brandt, and Seigenthaler

[Daniel R. Tobias]

(and doesn't "More on" go well with that site?)

Somebody e-mailed me that I probably shouldn't be giving more 
publicity to that silly bunch of losers, but some monitoring of those 
boards might be a good idea because some of the content hints at 
possible future attacks on Wikipedia.  Here's one where Brandt 
recounts his recent attempts to goad Seigenthaler into digging up the 
dead horse of the long-corrected defamation against him last year 
again:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3347

Apparently, Mr. Seigenthaler has enough good sense to decline to 
become a Brandt meatpuppet and do his bidding; Brandt would like him 
to do stuff like sue Wikipedia, or else issue a "do-this-or-else" 
demand to have his article completely removed (so as to serve as a 
precedent that Brandt can then follow), but he has no interest in it. 
 However, Brandt seems to think that Seigenthaler is favorable to 
launching a new media campaign against Wikipedia which might be able 
to pave the way for future legislation and litigation against it.  Or 
maybe Seigenthaler is just being polite to Brandt when they converse, 
and has no plans to agitate on this issue.  But it's worth watching 
for anyway.  When the media decides something is the menace of the 
week, like comic books in the 1950s and a whole succession of drug 
menaces (from crack to ecstasy to Oxycontin) from the '80s on, they 
can pour on excessive hype and prompt legislatures to take unwise 
action.
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