When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.Yes, famous newspapers published a fake (and rather "purple") quote in their obituaries for Michael Jarre, while Wikipedia (the public encyclopedia) tested the quote, found it wanting and removed it.
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
Motto trust Wikipedia over a professional journalist any day, diletantism rocks ;)
Maybe...
Labels: encyclopedia, internet, wikipedia
¶ 7:26 AM
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Even if I can't spell ;)
By 
Tim, at
May 13, 2009 7:28 AM
tim, tim, tim. no one has to tell me. i read your every post.
as to wiki- well even a blind ape can put a stick in a hole from time to time.
By Jim, at
May 13, 2009 8:16 AM
Yes, I realise that you see everything that goes on beneath the sun ;) what ammuses me is that this particular blind ape seems to hit the hole regularly, and even more often than the highly costly commercial rivals - perhaps the blind ape is simply less greedy and so less stupid?
By Tim, at
May 13, 2009 8:22 AM
