Monday, December 12, 2005

Man Apologizes After Fake Wikipedia Post (AP)


John Seigenthaler, a one-time administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy, works in his office on Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 in Nashville, Tenn. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to contribute articles, is tightening its rules for submitting entries following the disclosure that it ran a piece falsely implicating Seigenthaler in the Kennedy assassinations. Siegenthaler, USA Today's first editorial director, chairman emeritus and retired publisher and editor at the Tennessean in Nashville and a former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said that Wikipedia's biography of him has been changed to remove the false accusations. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A man who posted false information on an online encyclopedia linking a prominent journalist to the Kennedy assassinations says he was playing a trick on a co-worker.




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