In yesterday's Washington Post (4/4), Monica Hess questions our use of online information in her article Truth: Can You Handle It? Better Yet: Do You Know It When You See It? She discusses the increased popularity of Wikipedia and, as Steve Colbert describes it,"wikiality: a reality where, if enough people agree with a notion, it must be true."
Thankfully, as Hesse points out, librarians are leading the charge to show the importance of thorough research and the notion that information is good - but knowledge is better.
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This is the first reference I have seen to this article. The article's general concept is valid: question your sources.
But that doesn't seem to be the article's conclusion. Perhaps we do hear what we want to hear and believe what we want to believe - but that does NOT make it the truth.
Fran
Encyclopedia Brittanica takes a beating here when compared to Wikipedia. I wonder how other respected resources compare?
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