Check, Check & Check Again
Freelance writers and journalists discover fairly early in their careers Wikipedia is generally great for the volume of information it provides, but somewhat lacking in quality and credibility. As with any other endeavor to which the general public can contribute, especially anonymously, Wikipedia is bound to have inaccuracies and exaggerations, to say the least. Politics notwithstanding, President Obama’s Wikipedia entry looks more like a campaign poster than an encyclopedic passage. It is clear his people took advantage of the common license nature of the site to be able to provide background and biographical information which would cast the President in the best light. Continue Reading…
