Comments on: NBC’s Lisa Daniels Is Not a Rock Star http://mondoweiss.net/2007/03/nbcs_lisa_danie.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Sun, 27 May 2012 20:37:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Silverstein http://mondoweiss.net/2007/03/nbcs_lisa_danie.html/comment-page-1#comment-72770 Richard Silverstein Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/03/26/nbcs_lisa_danie.html#comment-72770 <p>Yes, I completely agree with you, Phil. Wikipedia may not be as realiable a source as the research tomes in yr college library, but then again Wikipedia reaches a lot more people & is accessed & edited by a lot more people than yr avg. library.</p> <p>Of course errors creep into it. Of course ideologues & vandals deface it. But what Daniels doesn't note is that as soon as she broadcast her report I'm sure her entry was edited within minutes by some enterprising Wikipedia editor who wanted to correct the record.</p> <p>And for the record, what Daniels did is considered vandalism at the Wikipedia site. Definitely not cool. Even sophomoric I'd say.</p> Yes, I completely agree with you, Phil. Wikipedia may not be as realiable a source as the research tomes in yr college library, but then again Wikipedia reaches a lot more people & is accessed & edited by a lot more people than yr avg. library.

Of course errors creep into it. Of course ideologues & vandals deface it. But what Daniels doesn't note is that as soon as she broadcast her report I'm sure her entry was edited within minutes by some enterprising Wikipedia editor who wanted to correct the record.

And for the record, what Daniels did is considered vandalism at the Wikipedia site. Definitely not cool. Even sophomoric I'd say.

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