June 17, 2008

Wikipedia Breaking News Faster Than NBC?

by Dan Gould

Someone mysteriously updated Tim Russert’s Wikipedia entry with news of his death a full 30 minutes before the story broke on NBC. IP address records indicate that the edits came from Internet Broadcasting, a company that runs websites for NBC’s Local Media Division. It’s also rumored that the news was hitting Twitter even before the Wikipedia edits. With our current capabilities of easily disseminating information, this kind of citizen journalism can come from anyone, and can easily outpace traditional media.

[via Valleywag]

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2 Responses to “Wikipedia Breaking News Faster Than NBC?”

  1. Scott
    Posted from: 38.114.71.19

    June 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    so often this “journalism” is wrong, leading to misinformation and legion of people who are more interested in “being first” than being correct.

    yet another example of our society knowing more and understanding less.

    cheers,
    scott

  2. Dan Gould
    Posted from: 69.60.2.142

    June 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    @ Scott - Agreed 100%

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