I find myself amused by this Katie Hafner story in the New York Times toda [1]y… And the impression that the story tries to leave his that’s the edits within Wikipedia we discussed here some day ago, were at its made by corporations. Well, since the New York Times has appointed itself the replacement for World Worker Daily I guess this angle shouldn’t be a surprise.
That said, Betsy’s Page [2]lays out the pattern of “corporate abuse” better than the new York times had the courage to:
I’ve been amused by the story [3]of the uncovering of corporate members editing their company’s Wikipedia page using the new page, Wikiscanner [4]. There have been some embarrassing edits that you can check out from Wired’s posting of [5]some of the most egregious edits including what someone at the ACLU put in [6]about Pope Benedict XVI and molesting young boys and degrading women or how a person at the NEA edited criticism out [7]about themselves. Or some people at the New York Times making these edits. [3]
And The New York Times Company is among those whose employees have made, among hundreds of innocuous changes, a handful of questionable edits. A change to the page on President Bush, for instance, repeated the word “jerk” 12 times. And in the entry for Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, the word “pianist” was changed to “penis.”
And there are enough examples to embarrass all sides of ideological debates such as revisions that Wal-Mart employees [8]made on that page. Or that someone at NRA [9]made about the NRA.
Of course we could add as Hafner did not, that a goodly portion of the edits in question, were coming from computers within the New York Times network, and were made in support of (all together now) leftists.
There would seem to be something of a pattern developing here, however; we see the left attempting redirecting the blame away from itself for various events, by rewriting history as recorded on Wikipedia. Once caught at such tampering, The most liberal paper in the country, attempts redirecting the blame for such rewriting of history, at their most hated enemy; corporate America. Gee, like, who couldn’t see that one coming?