On 14 April 2012 20:45, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
I would suggest that the critique rests on a highly
questionable
assumption, namely that if Wikipedia were not there people would pay
journalists to write the stuff that Wikipedia provides. Given that
when I'm creating new articles about topics, there's often a real
shortage of sources by the paid writers and journalists and I often
have to delve far into obscure archives to locate such sources, the
whole critique is ridiculous: Wikipedia is providing articles on
topics journalists and other paid writers never talk about because
there is no commercial market for material on that topic.
And further: ask said journalist when they stopped using Wikipedia as
a backgrounder.
- d.