In honor of Labor Day, we’re putting down our mics and mice and putting up some previous fruits of our labor. Tonight is a rebroadcast of our final pilot — a show that has never previously aired nationally — about the wondrous Wikipedia.
Sunday February 12 2012
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Let’s at least give a nod to the origins of the encyclopaedia in the Enlightenment through the altruism and intelligence of Denis Diderot, et al.
Amen!
Are we ever going to be able to hear the Wikipedia program online?
Months later, the mp3 link still goes to the “Catastrophic Success” apology message.
Perhaps this should evolve to a new program on ‘the causes of media bias’ and why is it ‘left wing media conspiracy’ and not otherwise, while Fox is ‘fair and balanced’ (BTW: That’s a pet peeve of mine, that is a complete fallacy, if someone lies 85% of the time and someone tells the truth 85% of the time, there is no way you can be balanced while being fair, and no way you can be fair while being balanced).
Most days it’s pathetic to see media coverage, and I feel that if the current media was covering Auschwitz they would headline: “Resident Jews complained about showering arrangements.” Of course, if one day we managed to fix this then Public Radio would start having some real competition
Wikipedia is specially susceptible to this, any relatively organized group of people can hijack a particular entry to suit their own purpose, and no one would be the wiser (who looks into the ‘controversies section’ anyway?). This is specially important now that Wikipedia is becoming THE reference for the internet-savvy.