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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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
June 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
@ Scott – Agreed 100%
June 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm