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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

The sociology major's obituary-friendly 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. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it.....

2 posted on 05/11/2009 12:44:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Media by-in-large are lazy. Many today have made a career out of just cut and pasting the Dem Party Line on most issues. There lack of skills shows in cases like this, even though it had nothing to do with politics of social agendas.


3 posted on 05/11/2009 12:58:48 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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