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post Tue 1st August 2006, 10:46am
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On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, that anyone can read or edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for "wikiality" the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you, it becomes reality.



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Blog: Late-night TV personality Stephen Colbert claims he has no qualms with Wikipedia. "I love Wikipedia," he said during the July...

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Newsvine   Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia   Tue 1st August 2006, 10:46am
Herschelkrustofsky   On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Repo...   Tue 1st August 2006, 3:01pm
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Yahoo! News   Blog: In the wake of "Colbert Report" ho...   Thu 3rd August 2006, 11:26pm
Yahoo! News   The online encyclopedia saw a spike of inaccurate ...   Thu 3rd August 2006, 10:34pm
Somey   Odd that this blogger didn't mention that the...   Fri 4th August 2006, 12:26am
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blissyu2   I love "the Daily Show". I have never s...   Mon 23rd October 2006, 1:58am
Herschelkrustofsky   Hey, welcome back, Blissyu2. There was another sat...   Mon 23rd October 2006, 2:27am
Milton Roe   On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Repo...   Sat 16th May 2009, 11:32pm
Somey   Colbert later made some comments about Wikiality a...   Sun 17th May 2009, 6:36am
Milton Roe   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='173445' date='Sat ...   Sun 17th May 2009, 7:06am
Cedric   My own guess is that Wales actually DID call up t...   Sun 17th May 2009, 3:18pm
danielaword   On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Repo...   Sat 28th August 2010, 7:55pm
thekohser   Mods, why is this story "pinned" in the ...   Thu 27th October 2011, 11:17am

 

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