Jul 04 2009
Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea
For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn’t learn that from reading The New York Times — or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction. For Wikipedia, that meant monitoring Rohde’s entry and quickly deleting information regarding the kidnapping as soon as anyone put it up. Everyone involved seemed to have good intentions.
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