How Wikipedia Is Putting The Existence Of A Free Press At RiskQUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ 30 Jan 2009)
Wikipedia has shown us that a mass medium can be rendered so plastic and so well-leveraged that any part of it can be manipulated by a relatively small number of people, in ways that defy a free society's usual means to guard against it, so long as the special interests in question have a moderate amount of resources and the will to do so. If there are portions of the content that remain untouched, it is for two reasons only: (1) no one has conceived a stake in them yet, (2) virgin forest makes for good cover.
If you're thinking that Wikipedia is the Latest Thing in Blows Against The Empire, then you have a DoubleThink coming.
Jon Awbrey,
Comment in The Guardian, 30 Jan 2009, 2:02am