[WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again

[Ray Saintonge]

Vee wrote:
> On 06/10/2007, David Goodman wrote:
>   
>> the day WP starts tending to be  on the sympathetic side, will be the last
>> day anyone can trust it.
>>     
> The point is that no one can trust Wikipedia.
That's exactly as things should be!  But we keep battling with people 
who want to trust something, and for whom that lack of trust is a major 
source of insecurity.  We want them to mistrust other sources just as 
much.  For centuries they could "Trust God", but the armour has been 
falling away from that particular kind of political deception.  We want 
students to question, but that skill is not well-taught when received 
truths are a significant element in pedagogy.

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