Students Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers: report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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From the page: "It has nothing to do with lazy. Newspapers no longer invest the money needed for investigative reporting. They have slashed the number of reporters they have compared to 50 years ago. This has coincided with newspapers switching from broadsheet to tabloid where the focus... more

Reviewed by Whomadewho May 07 2009, 12:54pm ( 64 reviews ) • abc.net.au

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Rated by DrNaCl on May 10 2009, 7:37pm

Yeah, one day I'll tell you about the fake "AP" story I put up on a pay-per-click website...it's the internet - 45% is mind-candy.
Rated by chiefdhruv on May 09 2009, 11:47am

shocking!
Rated by sakerson on May 09 2009, 11:22am

A great example of why trusting mainstream media sources is not advised. If their research only includes checking wikipedia, what good are they/
Reviewed by mwajszczyk on May 08 2009, 3:53pm

.......who cares? It's not like they quoted him as having died while having sex while paragliding or anything of insanity.
Rated by zdenton on May 08 2009, 9:59am

This is quite incredible.
Rated by whoneedsit on May 08 2009, 9:40am

From the page: "Student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers: report Posted Thu May 7, 2009 6:01am AEST "An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported on Wednesday..."

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