The Wikipedia Review: A forum for discussion and criticism of Wikipedia
Wikipedia Review Op-Ed Pages

Welcome, Guest! ( Log In | Register )

> How Wikipedia Puts The Existence Of A Free Press At Risk, And A Free Press Will Die, Not With A Bang, But A Wiki
Rating  3
Jon Awbrey
post Tue 3rd March 2009, 4:30am
Post #1


τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε
*********

Group: Moderators
Posts: 6,739
Joined: Sun 6th Apr 2008, 4:52am
From: Meat Puppet Nation
Member No.: 5,619

WP user page - talk
check - contribs



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

QUOTE(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

User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post
 
Reply to this topicStart new topic
Replies
emesee
post Mon 16th March 2009, 3:33am
Post #2


ban me
*****

Group: Tanked
Posts: 764
Joined: Sat 11th Oct 2008, 8:41pm
From: aww
Member No.: 8,586



so, what has to change?
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post

Posts in this topic
Jon Awbrey   How Wikipedia Puts The Existence Of A Free Press At Risk   Tue 3rd March 2009, 4:30am
Daniel Brandt   Along the same lines, Web 2.0 in general is increa...   Tue 3rd March 2009, 2:02pm
Daniel Brandt   For decades, many universities in the U.S. have ha...   Tue 3rd March 2009, 6:34pm
It's the blimp, Frank   Newspaper, more than any other type of media, ha...   Sat 30th October 2010, 6:05pm
Jon Awbrey   Newspaper, more than any other type of media, ha...   Sun 31st October 2010, 1:25am
Larry Sanger   There is this thing called supply and demand, see....   Wed 3rd November 2010, 3:21am
Jon Awbrey   There is this thing called supply and demand, see...   Wed 3rd November 2010, 3:28am
emesee   so, what has to change?   Mon 16th March 2009, 3:33am
Rhindle   I wonder what Neil Postman would say about wikiped...   Mon 16th March 2009, 5:07pm
Milton Roe   I wonder what Neil Postman would say about wikipe...   Mon 16th March 2009, 7:23pm
Jon Awbrey   I wonder what Neil Postman would say about wikipe...   Tue 17th March 2009, 2:34am
Selina   I think proper news organisations can capitalise f...   Tue 17th March 2009, 11:57am
Jon Awbrey   I think proper news organisations can capitalise ...   Tue 17th March 2009, 12:20pm
Jon Awbrey   Periodic Reminder — For all the nøøbs … An...   Fri 29th October 2010, 11:50pm
Peter Damian   I'm afraid you gentlemen are just showing ency...   Sat 30th October 2010, 9:57am
Jon Awbrey   Variations on a Theme — Michael Moore, “How C...   Sat 20th November 2010, 6:54pm
Jon Awbrey   Variations on a Theme — Michael Moore, “How ...   Sun 21st November 2010, 4:15pm
Zoloft   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='259771' date='Sat 2...   Sun 21st November 2010, 8:47pm
MZMcBride   There's an undertone here that I think unfairl...   Sat 20th November 2010, 7:25pm
Jon Awbrey   There's an undertone here that I think unfair...   Sat 20th November 2010, 11:10pm
Jon Awbrey   There's an undertone here that I think unfai...   Sun 21st November 2010, 3:36am
MZMcBride   Now, any such “undertone” is of course purely ...   Sun 21st November 2010, 7:05am
Peter Damian   If there's a decent argument that Wikipedia i...   Sun 21st November 2010, 11:48am
Avirosa   A site like Wikinews or the Internet in general a...   Sun 21st November 2010, 8:39pm
MZMcBride   Do you have an argument for how or why the contex...   Mon 22nd November 2010, 7:54am
Avirosa   I'm not sure you're familiar with the var...   Mon 22nd November 2010, 6:08pm
Kelly Martin   Wikipedia is being steadily subverted to serve the...   Sun 21st November 2010, 4:53pm
Jon Awbrey   Good Grief, it's like Wikipediots can't co...   Mon 22nd November 2010, 2:41am
MZMcBride   Good Grief, it's like Wikipediots can't co...   Mon 22nd November 2010, 8:04am
Jon Awbrey   Good Grief, it's like Wikipediots can't c...   Wed 24th November 2010, 2:16am


Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

 

-   Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 23rd 5 13, 7:24am