Associated Press discovers Carolyn Doran Options

[thekohser]

It's later than I had promised, but it's finally here.

Felon became COO of Wikipedia foundation

by BRIAN BERGSTEIN, of the Associated Press



I wonder how those "The Register is just a tabloid. This is a non-event." people on Wikien-l mailing list will still be singing that tune, as this story gets picked up by (I predict) 200+ mainstream media newspapers.

Greg

[thekohser]

Oh, dear. We're 30 minutes since this hit the wire, and already 37 publications have re-printed it on their websites.

Should we add to the BADSITES list, the following?

• San Diego Union Tribune
• CBS-4 Denver
• Brisbane Times, Australia
• Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
• Houston Chronicle
• Miami Herald
• The News & Observer (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
• Denver Post
• Newsday (New York)
• Orlando Sentinel
• Forbes
• International Herald Tribune (France)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune

Oh dear, oh dear. This doesn't look like a "non-story" any more, does it?

Greg

[the fieryangel]

Oh, dear. We're 30 minutes since this hit the wire, and already 37 publications have re-printed it on their websites.

Should we add to the BADSITES list, the following?

• San Diego Union Tribune
• CBS-4 Denver
• Brisbane Times, Australia
• Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
• Houston Chronicle
• Miami Herald
• The News & Observer (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
• Denver Post
• Newsday (New York)
• Orlando Sentinel
• Forbes
• International Herald Tribune (France)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune

Oh dear, oh dear. This doesn't look like a "non-story" any more, does it?

Greg

Added to the time line.

The Wikien-l has picked this up too...All they seem to care about is "whether she's notable enough for a bio or not"....

Sheez, they just don't get it, do they???

Jimbo weighs in here....saying that since another, entirely unrelated financial scandal doesn't have an article, then why should this be covered in Wikipedia???

Is he therefore suggesting that this IS therefore a financial scandal? What about that audit, Jimbo? Where are we at with that?

The point should be "don't give money to Wikipedia: they can't be trusted"....

And then we have this interesting "catch-22" discussion: If we make an exception for this "notable" but "sad story", then what does this mean in the longrun for bios of living persons??


This post has been edited by the fieryangel:

[thekohser]

Another interesting point is that David Gerard is pushing the envelope for professional libel of a journalist...

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 21:35:18 UTC 2007

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On 21/12/2007, Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an aside, how does
> Charles Ainsworth (Cla68, I believe) end up commenting in every news
> article? Sheesh.


The AP reporter was contacting donors and fishing for quotes; after
they all told him to bugger off, I expect he went wherever he could
find the quote he was looking for. Why report the news when you can go
out of your way to make it?


- d.