... and fact-checkers at work again:
Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists' research. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
A key part of the argument for maintaining traditional journalism is that its trained reporters can perform research and investigations that the untrained masses can't, and the content they produce is run by editors and fact-checkers. The revelation that their research is often no more sophisticated than an average Web surfer's, and that the fact checking can be nonexistent, really doesn't help that argument much.
I guess not.
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