[WikiEN-l] Colbert on WikiScanner

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> Stephen Colbert did another of his ridicule jobs on Wikipedia, this 
> time centered on WikiScanner, and how it's evil because it engages in 
> "outing" of the online personas of... no, not individual Wikipedians, 
> but corporations, which are people with rights too.  How dare that 
> evil attack site expose that Exxon is creating an online personality 
> in which it's a friend of the environment?
My impression is that Colbert is actually pro-Wikipedia.  He'll make 
mincemeat out of anyone who doesn't grasp his kind of humour.  When he 
was on Jimbo showed himself able to roll with the punches.  By contrast 
when Colbert asked Andrew (Cult of the Amateur) Keen what he thought of 
Wikipedia, Keen appeared very uncomfortable. Keen's pomposity is easily 
deflated.  Someone without a sense of humour that appears on Colbert 
would do just as well to appear on Jerry Springer.

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