Wikipedia and the Mainstream Media

From Language Log: Lack of editorial oversight in the mainstream media:

Newspapers and wire services are certainly welcome additions to the world's information economy, but these media, valuable as they are, can never be fully accepted as sources of information until they put into place some reasonable standards of editorial oversight and some workable mechanisms for detecting and correcting errors.

Um, that's a joke, sort of, but its conclusion is all too true.

Get the story on Wikipedia's (alleged) change in editorial policy here.