[WikiEN-l] False quote regarding Maurice Jarre

[David Gerard]

2009/5/7 William King <williamcarlking at gmail.com>:

> Fox News picks up Reuters story regarding the late French composer Maurice Jarre:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519283,00.html
> Reuters interviewed Shane Fitzgerald, the Irish student who made up the false quote on Jarre's Wikipedia biography.
> Your thoughts???


So far the coverage I've seen has been quite sensible - *every*
journalist uses Wikipedia as their handy quick universal backgrounder,
and the stories I've seen have blamed the obituary writers for not
checking references.


- d.