Who’s Changing The Wiki Entries?

By Chris Ariens 

FishbowlNY‘s Neal Ungerleider writes about “Wikipedia vandalism” apparently at the hands of people from two news organizations, including FNC.

Ungerleider writes, “Bloggers Geeks Are Sexy compiled a list of Fox News’ extensive Wikipedia edits – which, among other things, posted false information about the ratings of Fox News shows, accused Keith Olbermann of making light of Peter Jennings‘ death and deleted ratings info for MSNBC programs.”

Ungerleider compiles the before and after entries.

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>More: An emailer asks: “Has anyone actually checked out the validity of this? The kid who created it said he did it to ‘create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike…'”

The emailer cites several media-related entry changes after the jump…


Someone at CBS had fun with Bill Clinton‘s entry:

CBS had fun with Wolf Blitzer‘s name

Viacom removes criticism for Pimp My Ride…

BBC labels George W. Bush a “wanker”…

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