On 17/01/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/17/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Fans of the Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow
were left stunned yesterday
> after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reported that he had died last
The word "reported" is very telling of how
we are still misperceived.
We're not a news site. Why do people think we are?
I actually spoke at some length about this with the person who called
me - death notices often do in fact show up on Wikipedia before almost
anywhere, e.g. the death of [[Andrea Dworkin]], where it went straight
from a feminist mailing list to her article and only hit the media
during the following day. Being *current* is one of our really strong
suits, and the readers know this.
- d.