[WikiEN-l] The London Review of Books on Wikipedia

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet,
> but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the
> readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article
> tends to diminish most forms of human understanding."

I don't get it. Reader communities are one of the few ways a newspaper
reporting a global story can distinguish itself from every other paper
on the net.

Steve