Wikilobbying
I finally watched Stephen Colbert’s “Wikilobbying” piece from Comedy Central, and enjoyed it more than I expected to. Here’s the link:
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=81454
I think it accurately captures the challenge of keeping Wikipedia entries accurate and fact-based. Sure, he had to distort what I had discussed with Rick in order to make his point, but he’s about the millionth person to do that in the last week, so I hardly even noticed.
It’s interesting that the Wikipedia entry for wikilobbying redirects to Colbert’s show now.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 4:17 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on January 31, 2007 at 7:18 pm Megan wrote:
Looks like everything for wikilobbying has been deleted now–I just followed your link and got no exact matches, then checked the deletion log:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Wikilobbying
on January 31, 2007 at 7:56 pm Tom wrote:
I was personally a little disappointed in Colbert’s bit. Lizzie and I watch the Colbert Report fairly religiously (usually waiting in particular for “The Word”), and he’s generally better than that. He and his writers clearly didn’t fully understand the comedic and factual potential here. Still, as I said alluded to in an e-mail to you, you’re totally the most popular person I know. Will you sign my breast? A Doug Mahugh “mammograph” would certainly make me the most popular person among the people I know.
Which may say more about the people I know than anything else.
on January 31, 2007 at 8:38 pm Megan wrote:
Yeah, I thought the Colbert bit was kind of lame, too.
on February 1, 2007 at 3:43 am Doug wrote:
That’s funny about the link — it pointed to nothing minutes before I posted that, then it changed to pointing to Colbert’s entry (and I verified it after posting), now it’s been deleted. Busy times for Wikipedia.
And me too. Fighting the good fight here in India, that’s probably all I should say for now.
Yes, Tom, I’ll gladly sign your breast. Send it in an 8.5×11 SASE, please.
on February 2, 2007 at 9:13 pm Tom wrote:
Thanks — I’ll shave it and get it right off to you.