On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]<ragesoss%[email protected]> > wrote:
> This article by Evgeny Morozov, nominally a review of Andrew Lih's > book "The Wikipedia Revolution", is worth reading: > > http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.6/morozov.php > > -Sage > > I've long puzzled over why journalists constantly post editorials criticizing Wikipedia and proclaiming that it will never take off. I thought that eventually we'd win them over. Then I realized why this will never happen. News media is a business. We are a threat to their model. Therefore, it's important to them to convince their readers that Wikipedia is unreliable, whether it is or not. They will never stop criticizing and attacking us as long as we undermine their bottom line. As such I have no interest in news print or journalist opinions of Wikipedia. Their paychecks depend on our failure. Pay them no heed. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
