Eh, I would say (sadly) that the mainstream news media practically depends on Wikipedia to fill in background info for half of their stories. Gaffes by TV repo

Eh, I would say (sadly) that the mainstream news media practically depends on Wikipedia to fill in background info for half of their stories. Gaffes by TV reporters have occasionally been traced back to Wikipedia vandalism. Sometimes Wikipedians then cite the misguided journalist(s) when adding the falsehood into the article [1], a circular phenomenon of "fact-creation" that has been lampooned by xkcd [2]. [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/10/2211220/false-fact-on-wikipedia-proves-itself http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/10/2211220/false-fact-o... [2] http://xkcd.com/978/ http://xkcd.com/978/