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How Wikipedia Is Putting The Existence Of A Free Press At Risk

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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
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Variations on a Theme —

Michael Moore, “How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff”, Truthout, 19 Nov 2010.

MM included an Exercise for the Reader —

I added my usual suspicion …

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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sat 20th November 2010, 1:54pm) *

Variations on a Theme —

Michael Moore, “How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff”, Truthout, 19 Nov 2010.

MM included an Exercise for the Reader —

I added my usual suspicion …

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Apparently some people did not read this latest post, much less the article that I linked.

Exercise for Those Who Can Read …

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