[WikiEN-l] NBC's story on Wikipedia

[Jossi Fresco]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Fastfission wrote:

> There seems to have developed a rather stock story about Wikipedia.
> You'd think these journalists would want to present something at least
> a little bit interesting, maybe unique, but they all seem to go back
> to the, "And then I put in false information! Look, even I could do
> it! Ha!" and end it there. I'm not sure if they are really all
> imbeciles, or if they just assume their audience is made up of
> imbeciles, but it is sad to say the least. When I wrote for the high
> school newspaper we had higher standards than that.

This is proof of the poor state of affairs in journalism these days.  
Maybe we should demote the notion that newspaper and broadcast media  
are reliable sources, due to lack of basic fact-checking... :)


-- Jossi