May 12, 2009

Student Uses Wikipedia to Test Media

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.

His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.

[Read more from msnbc.com, Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia]

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