[WikiEN-l] NBC's story on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 23/03/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Sheldon is talking good sense, Sarah and Ray are not. The press will print bad-news stories about WP, but that's because such stories are _news_. As David Gerard has just said, the hacks like WP and are well disposed towards us. That doesn't mean they are obliged to make propaganda for WP. If you take open-source software as a comparison, I doubt mainstream journalism has ever had the slightest interest in putting that in "proper perspective". With that as baseline, WP has already done well. A single story about citation in college work probably will have more thoughtful content than you could find about Linux distributions in a month of Sundays.


I think our media coverage is mostly pretty nice. Our press is good
when decently informed, only bad when it isn't. TV is a *lot* more
soundbitey. Radio is not nearly as bad, if it's live rather than
prerecorded (thinking of that recent NPR where ten minutes was cut
down to one sentence out of context).


- d.