[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jun 25 17:23:45 UTC 2007


David Gerard wrote:

>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.)
>
That, or maybe they just fell into one.

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