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maxjohan · 05-12-2009, 11:04 AM

Did you guys read this??
Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote
Irish student hoaxes world's media with florid but phony quote from dead French composer

Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
On Monday May 11, 2009, 12:07 pm EDT
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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.

The sociology major's obituary-friendly 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. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it.

A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets they'd swallowed his baloney whole.

"I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia.

"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."

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UFGators2007 · 05-12-2009, 11:18 AM

Saw it last week. Not a shock. The local news anchors and anchorettes here in South Florida proudly quote Wikipedia all the time. So much for actual research.

Rakie · 05-12-2009, 11:29 AM

That's pretty good. Kudos to the young lad, something any college student would like to achieve; Tricking the world.

Printed paper is a dead format. They need to shut down the papers already, it's a sad thing but that field is gone, why wait for a new paper, or even "news at 10" when you can get it immediately from your phone, or for you slightly older people who aren't unaware of technology - The computer.

05-12-2009, 11:04 AM	#1
maxjohan Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 7,219	Irish Studen Hoaxes World Media Did you guys read this?? Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote Irish student hoaxes world's media with florid but phony quote from dead French composer Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer On Monday May 11, 2009, 12:07 pm EDT Buzz up! Print 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. The sociology major's obituary-friendly 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. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets they'd swallowed his baloney whole. "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact." More over here http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-...1451.html?.v=1 __________________ I went from 100 to 313,000 satoshis in 2 days! Lots of daily freerolls...

05-12-2009, 11:18 AM	#2
UFGators2007 Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 1,739	Saw it last week. Not a shock. The local news anchors and anchorettes here in South Florida proudly quote Wikipedia all the time. So much for actual research. __________________ "I use the Google to pull up maps."

05-12-2009, 11:29 AM	#3
Rakie Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southern California. Posts: 147	That's pretty good. Kudos to the young lad, something any college student would like to achieve; Tricking the world. Printed paper is a dead format. They need to shut down the papers already, it's a sad thing but that field is gone, why wait for a new paper, or even "news at 10" when you can get it immediately from your phone, or for you slightly older people who aren't unaware of technology - The computer. __________________ Sound Engineer ~ Graduate of Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.