Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers

worb writes "According to the Lowell Sun, U.S. Rep Marty Meehan's staff has been heavily editing his Wikipedia bio, among other things removing criticisms. In total, more than one thousand Wikipedia edits in various articles have been traced back to congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six months."

Yeah, this is news.

[heinousjay]

Coming up after the break, we'll have the weather, and Tom will present his special report, "Are All Politicians Scumbags?" The answer may surprise you. But first, is your computer rotting your brain? You may be dead and not even know it yet.

--------- (I apologize if this is too high concept. I sick, and my head is floaty. It feels right, but right now I have terrible judgement.)

Re:Democrats, Republicans: the same thing!

[Sneftel]

(Edited Sunday January 29, 03:26PM by RonPaul)

Re:Wikipedians expose the "congressional edits"

[StikyPad]

Hopefully we'll have a War on the Human Condition soon so we can fix that annoying little problem and make the world a little safer for Freedom when it gets here.

Surprising news!

[Anonymous Coward]

Completely open systems vulnerable to abuse. News at eleven!

Didn't the wikipedia guys ever have a subscription to "Duh!" magazine?

Re:Whatever

[lxs]

Good idea, ruined by humanity once again.

There you go again confusing politicians with human beings...

Re:Wikipedians expose the "congressional edits"

[secolactico]

You forgot:

FARK Headline: [OBVIOUS] Congressman's staff corrects "sloppy writing" in his Wikipedia entry, like the part where it mentioned that he broke his promise not to serve more than four terms

Two days ago, even. Link [fark.com]

Re:not just him....

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, if only there was some way for us to choose who made up the government.

A modest proposal

[dpiven]

"Wikipedia operates on the principle that the 'truth' is whatever most people agree it is."

Finally, a testable hypothesis!

Let's charter a plane, fly a dozen Wikipedians up to about 12000 ft sans parachutes, and see if they can all agree that they can float gently to earth once they are prematurely deplaned :-)

Re:Not "modern age"...

[mikiN]

Hmmm, seems to be a page which has had a lot of edits. Which 'version' of Truth do you trust?

Re:Wikipedians expose the "congressional edits"

[goon america]

Tom DeLay has been unanimously admonished by the House ethics committee run by his own party 3 times now? 4 times?

If you're looking for an innocent victim of scandal here, Tom DeLay is probably not one.

Re:Wickipedia Edits

[Imsdal]

You can make your IP address change every hour, but you can't spell "wikipedia" correctly? Somehow, I'm underwhelmed...

Re:Wikipedians expose the "congressional edits"

[apt142]

And one more:

The Onion Headline: Republicans can read!