[sbMKE]

Wikipedia at the center of a Wisconsin controversy over marketing/business-consumer politics turned dirty.

Previous coverage - 8/28 AM story Web wars ensnare ferries: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488464

And follow up story - 8/28 late PM: Wikipedia lake ferry entry has lots of back and forth http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488688

[martin_fierro]

NM Governor Bill Richardson (D) lied publicly for years about his being recruited for/playing professional baseball, you say?

Not according to Wikipedia's Memory Hole. Never happened.

[rockrr]

Wackypedia is the cBS of encyclopedias....

[burzum]

OMG, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is complaining about bias and spin! "Pot, this is kettle..."

[spinestein]

When considering the information one reads at Wikipedia, it is wise to remember that "you get what you pay for" and "let the buyer beware".

Yes, that's right. The information bought there is FREE, and some people are still incredulous that it MIGHT CONTAIN INACCURACIES.

[burzum]

Just in case anyone is curious, this is the same newspaper that donates to Planned Parenthood and recently wrote in an editorial:

"Another minus is that the nomination lessens the court's diversity. O'Connor herself had expressed the desire that her successor be a woman. O'Connor seems to have grown wiser about diversity as a result of her Supreme Court experience. She came to see the virtues of having a court that looks like America - doubtless a big reason she softened her opposition to affirmative action in recent years.

In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America."

I'd take Wikipedia over the Milwaukee JS any day.

[Lancey Howard]

Lack of credibility is a demonstrably bad selling point. But let's save the harshest criticism for some of those doing the altering. Charitably, they might be called creative opportunists. Uncharitably, liars.

Huh. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel could easily have been talking here about the New York Times, Dan Rather, and a host of other liberal "mainstream" newsrooms.

[Cacique]

hmmmm

[libstripper]

I attended the NRA convention in Milwaukee earlier this year and rode the Lake Express ferry to and from Muskegon just to see what it's like--it's great. Coach fare for a round trip is $90.00 and first class is $120. The passage in each direction is at 40 mph and takes about 2.5 hours. This compares to about a 6 hour, 300 mile drive around the bottom of the lake on the chopped up Illinois Tollway or the chopped up Dan Ryan expressway through Chicago.