[WikiEN-l] Re: Crony Capitalism

Thu Feb 26 21:04:00 UTC 2004

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> I've noted this at Wikipedia as a Press Source
>
> The CBC Newsworld <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_Newsworld> programme
> Counterspin in a discussion on "Corruption and the Political Process"
> made use of the Wikipedia definition of crony capitalism
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism> , February 25.
>
> It's interesting to see that we are being quoted by the primary Canadian
> TV Network in the context of a current domestic political scandal. :-)
>
Should we consider that we're establishing a corollary to Gresham's Law
("Bad money drives out good")? That would be, "People tend to refer to
the least expensive (or most most widely accessible) source of facts."

Geoff