"Steve Dufour" <hobbitfan111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
> > "Steve Dufour" <hobbitfan111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > > The Wa****ngton Times
> > > http://www.wa****ngtontimes.com
> > >
> > > Hill staffers spin Web encyclopedia
> > >
> > > By Shannon McCaffrey
> > > ASSOCIATED PRESS
> > > Published April 29, 2006
> > >
> > >
> > > ATLANTA -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be altered by
> > > anyone with a computer, has proved remarkably useful for pulling
> > > political dirty tricks.
> >
> >
> > ... And with the budget available, and Rummy's public desire to
"police"
> > the internet, this has long been a problem. The government has
actually
> > hired full-time staffers to deploy the republican agenda throughout
the
> > entire blogosphere and Usenet. Wikipedia, as an openly editable
source,
> > has very little value as a research tool that can beguaranteed to
contain
> > accurate and factual material. I'm sure that not only has Wiki been
> > molested by paid IT staffers, but even search results that I've
counted
> > on for years from Google are starting to be skewed in their return
format.
> > This is the tip of the iceberg of propaganda and domestic espionage.
> Thanks David. The unpaid people can do a lot a damage too.
No doubt about it... and the scary thing is that younger kids are being
led to believe by teachers and peers alike, that Wikipedia is a reliable
source for information.
You really want to get scared at what the paid pundits are doing to kids?
Have a look at this... http://www.worldslastchance.com
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