[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[David Gerard]

On 25/06/07, Nick Wilkins <nlwilkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "they" here is a bit broad for such a generalization.  Some do, some
> don't.  Of course, that's true for blogs as well--the more conscientious of
> them will note changes.  The relative prevalences of such a practice between
> the two media, of course, is certainly something that could be discussed,
> but to say that all newspapers note changes to their online versions is
> about as accurate as saying no blogs do.


Note the recent case where the NYT stealth-changed an article and
didn't note the fact until Wikipedians called them out on it.

(Anyone who makes a blanket statement that the press is reliable and
blogs aren't is on crack.)


- d.