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How Wikipedia Puts The Existence Of A Free Press At Risk, And A Free Press Will Die, Not With A Bang, But A Wiki

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Jon Awbrey	Tue 3rd March 2009, 4:30am Post #1
τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε Group: Moderators Posts: 6,745 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

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MZMcBride	Sat 20th November 2010, 7:25pm Post #2
Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 671 Joined: Wed 25th Mar 2009, 5:02am Member No.: 10,962 WP user page - talk check - contribs	There's an undertone here that I think unfairly glamorizes the old media. I'm not sure there's been a very compelling case made that today's Web 2.0 spin is any worse than the spin and propaganda of a century ago. There is a greater accessibility today, both from a creation and consumption standpoint, to be sure. However, the central argument here seems inherently flawed. When has the press ever been "free" in any sense? And how does greater accessibility in the Digital Age make it less free (or put it "at risk")? I'm still not seeing it.

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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

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