Monday, June 29, 2009

Wikipedia?!?!

As a political junkie and history buff, I find Watergate to be a perfect storm. Thus, I am almost as excited when new Nixon tapes are released as others are when the new Kanye West or Radiohead CD drops.

The content of the newest tapes as revealed in this article notwithstanding, I was quite disturbed by the fact that the first two hyperlinks are to Wikipedia. Not that they were being used for fact-checking per se, but if I had a dime for every time a journalism instructor told the class not to use Wikipedia....


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1 comment:

  1. Listen to your journalism instructors!!!!

    Wikkipedia is a wonderful tool for getting a little background on a subject that you are not familiar with and for finding primary sources, but never, ever, use it as a source itself.

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