I saw it on teh intarwebz, SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

BenPanced · May 12, 2009

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1

DUBLIN (AP) -- When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony 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.

Higgins · May 12, 2009

BenPanced said:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1

Did this hoax really happen? Do experimental hoaxes count as hoaxes?

Stanley Fish isn't so sure:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/fooled-again/

I saw it on teh intarwebz, SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

BenPanced

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Higgins