Yes, it's all over the blogosphere too. The spin is all about how stupid Rush Limbaugh is to be taken in by a hoax on Wikipedia, and not the least about how a hoax could be on Wikipedia in an article about a living person, complete with a forged/fictional citation. Apparently it is a given out in the world that one should not believe a word of what is written on Wikipedia, and no longer newsworthy.
Crockspot On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just heard about this from Keith Olbermann's show. Rush Limbaugh's > researchers apparently grabbed a story from Wikipedia about Judge > Roger Vinson and used it in one of his rants against health care. The > story, describing the judge as a keen hunter and taxidermist who hung > stuffed bear heads above his courthouse in order to put "the fear of > God" into defendants, turned out to be false. > > Apparently the judge doesn't hunt that much and prefes horticulture. > “I’ve never killed a bear,” he told the New York Times on Wednesday, > “and I’m not Davy Crockett.” He is the president of the American > Camelia Society. The source cited in the Wikipedia article was dated > June 31, 2003. "Thirty days hath...June." The New York TImes also > reported that the editor who added the bogus story to Wikipedia at the > weekend recently removed it. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/us/16judge.html > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
