Author Apologizes For Fake Wikipedia Biography
A USA Today article by Susan Page, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The mystery of who posted false and scandalous entries about a prominent journalist in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia - including suggestions that he was involved in assassinations - has been solved.
Brian Chase, 38, a manager at a small delivery service in Nashville, presented a letter of apology Friday explaining his role to the journalist, John Seigenthaler, a former editor of Nashville's Tennessean and a founder of the First Amendment Center there. Seigenthaler is a former editorial-page editor of USA TODAY.
Chase said the additions he made to Seigenthaler's biography were intended to be "a joke" on a co-worker on what he thought was "some sort of 'gag' encyclopedia." They had been discussing the Seigenthalers, a well-known local family.
posted by Fergie @ 12/12/2005 06:37:00 AM
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