Posted on 02/09/2006 4:25:34 AM PST by albionvectis
Congress would do something underhanded? I'm shocked.
Wikipedia - the online, free for all, user beware, system that may or may not be accurate. Why would anyone want to rely on it, is my question.
Conversely, why would anyone in congress bother making changes to an organ that is as much opinion as fact.
I'm skeptical of the "wise elders" who write traditional encyclopedia's too.
Like any propaganda machine masquerading as a fact outlet, it will become useful only to those whom are naive.
...But it has been criticised for the correctness of entries, most recently over the biography of prominent US journalist John Seigenthaler - which incorrectly linked him to the Kennedy assassinations.
Caveat Emptor.
Wikipedia says whatever the most active activists want it to say. You must take everything there with a cartoon of salt.
I'm glad they waste time and tax dollars messing withthis crap.
It's community edited - are some people not allowed to be part of the community? I see nothing wrong with this. Keeping people from being able to edit their own entries is where a problem would be.
Note to Congress: Won't help...
Wikipedia states that the Tasaday, a hoax admitted even by PBS documentaries, are real.
They have lost all credibility with that allowance. Wikipedia should never be used as a reference for anything.
Apparently some members of Congress believe that.
Since the President does not have any vote in Congress, the change Coleman's staff made was probably wise, in the interest of accuracy.
And you illustrate the prime attribute of print media; the corpus stands or falls together. Lie in a book and it will, sooner or later, be relegated to the trash heap. Lie virtually and promises of correction or excuses of 'error' can be claimed.
Wikipaedia will fail for its failure to address the unchanging nature of truth and of good and evil. Progressivism - change willy nilly for change's sake - is evil. Conservatism - clinging to the 'way' of the past - may not be the best way but it got us here, and that's bretty good for me.
Maybe we can change Teddy's Chappaquidic incident into a tragic car washing execise, Vince Foster's death is now simply an example of improper park usage, and Monica Lewinsky's blue dress was the first attempt by the Clintons to institue a constituional right to free dry cleaning.
To that ... there would be no doubt! ;)
P.J. O'Rourke
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
Will Rogers
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