I find myself not shocked by an article on Yahoo! Tech about a 22 year old college student in Dublin, Ireland who wanted to check if the media was giving solid news independent from what they hear on the World Wide Web.

Shane Fitzgerald learned about the death of Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, happened on March 28, 2009 so he went onto his wikipedia page and added a false quote to the page to see the media reaction. After posting the quote, a few dozon U.S. Blogs picked up on the new quote and posted it as a real quote even though the quote didn't have reliable sources. Even wikipedia moderators commented on the low reliablity of the quote but media sites/journalists bit the big lie. The quote that was printed on the wikipedia page was:

"One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack.Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear."

Shane had to tell those media coperations about the real truth to the quote and not report it as real.

This comes to show you that news isn't always reliable just because you get it from the TV or Newspaper.

Yahoo! said it best when talking about Shane's test: "His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked".