Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia

**Jason** · 05-25-2009, 12:11 PM

DUBLIN - When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said 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.

The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30699302

TJ Belfiore · 05-25-2009, 05:35 PM

Ha, interesting.

Amazing how everyone believes Wiki-up so much.

**Drew1369** · 05-26-2009, 01:36 AM

Use Wikipedia as a starting point and no more... its great to find a good compilation of sources used...

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TJ Belfiore December 8th, 1980 :[ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 530 Posts: 3,511 OS: 7 x64, XP x32	Re: Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia Ha, interesting. Amazing how everyone believes Wiki-up so much. __________________

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Drew1369 Moderator Relaxation Room Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 3,425 OS: Win7 Ultimate	Re: Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia Use Wikipedia as a starting point and no more... its great to find a good compilation of sources used... __________________ We humans have a primal urge to kill because, thanks to natural selection, all the homo sapiens who didn't have a primal urge to kill, were themselves killed. http://obamaclock.org/