Re: [WikiEN-l] False quote regarding Maurice Jarre

2009-05-07 Thread Sam Korn
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:09 PM, William King williamcarlk...@gmail.com wrote: Fox News picks up Reuters story regarding the late French composer Maurice Jarre: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519283,00.html Reuters interviewed Shane Fitzgerald, the Irish student who made up the false

Re: [WikiEN-l] False quote regarding Maurice Jarre

2009-05-07 Thread David Gerard
2009/5/7 William King williamcarlk...@gmail.com: Fox News picks up Reuters story regarding the late French composer Maurice Jarre: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519283,00.html Reuters interviewed Shane Fitzgerald, the Irish student who made up the false quote on Jarre's Wikipedia

Re: [WikiEN-l] False quote regarding Maurice Jarre

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Matthews
Sam Korn wrote: The moral of this story is not that journalists should avoid Wikipedia, but that they shouldn't use information they find there if it can't be traced back to a reliable primary source, said the Guardian's readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth. That's about as good a piece of