SaintB
13-05-2009, 04:37
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30699302/wid/11915829?GT1=40006
DUBLIN - 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.
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India.
Impressive i'n't it? One college student posts a fake quote on a Wiki Article that lasts only a few minutes and the world's media latches on to it and publishes it as the truth!
Whats this say about the accountability of today's media?
DUBLIN - 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.
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India.
Impressive i'n't it? One college student posts a fake quote on a Wiki Article that lasts only a few minutes and the world's media latches on to it and publishes it as the truth!
Whats this say about the accountability of today's media?