[WikiEN-l] NBC's story on Wikipedia

[Slim Virgin]

On 3/23/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Slim Virgin wrote:
> > >On 3/23/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
> > >>Wikipedia is a big enough topic that it attracts all kinds of
> > >>reporters, all kinds of criticism and all kinds of praise. Overall, I
> > >>think it has gotten fairly sympathetic press.
>
> > >Yes, indeed, though I sense that's coming to an end.
>
> 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.

A rule in journalism is that there comes a point when the story has to
change; when what was good is made bad, and vice versa. The story
always has to change.

Sarah