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Wikipedia Covers Up Barack Obama's Past: Wikiality

Wikipedia is useful for background facts on an issue.  It's totally unreliable about anything that is controversial.  People are learning this through the repeated edits of President Obama's Wikipedia entry:Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama's page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ? though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past affiliations with him. The lone mention of Wright on Obama's page appears in a section on his family and personal life; it says the president left Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in May 2008 after "controversial statements made by Rev...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).