Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 06, 2010, 05:22 PM

Credibility?  It seems singularly lacking these days in traditional media.  I don't have an answer but I'm positive that "the Internet" is not the cause of these bad news days.  Quite the contrary, I turn to my own reliable Internet sources when credibility and credulity are both strained in traditional sources.   What about you? 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 19, 2008, 10:37 AM
The good folks at George Mason University (one of the most technologically sophisticated universities around--they brought us Zotero) have perpetrated a very clever hoax, creating a pirate, Edward Owens, an archive, an interpretation, and a Wikipedia entry. You can now find the corrected, exposed Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia with links to the sources that exposed this as a hoax. It's all smart, fun, and interesting. Especially to one who began her career writing on Ambrose Bierce and whose early mentor was historian Russell B. Nye.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 06, 2008, 10:15 PM
From AJR, February/March 2008 issue Wikipedia in the Newsroom

February/March » While the line ?according to Wikipedia? pops up occasionally in news stories, it?s relatively rare to see the user-created online encyclopedia cited as a source. But some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information.