Here's a story of extremely shoddy journalism, in which a Dublin university student invented a quotation, put it up on Wikipedia, and watched how mainstream media sources picked it up and ran with it. HT to reader.
I guess it's more than the Korea Times that will print anything. BTW, I was talking to a co-teacher about how the Times was pwned, and she said that her father used to be an editor there. Holy was that awkward...
I guess it's more than the Korea Times that will print anything.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I was talking to a co-teacher about how the Times was pwned, and she said that her father used to be an editor there. Holy was that awkward...
When I was an international law/ethics instructor in Europe, I threatened to mark down any paper that used Wikipedia as a source.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia is intended for those who are too lazy to read books. Lots of errors there
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