Monday, May 11, 2009

CTV.ca | Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote

CTV.ca: 2009 May 11

"DUBLIN -- When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phoney quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.

His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked."