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On December 5, 2005, Wikipedia founder [[Jimbo Wales]] and Seigenthaler appeared on [[CNN]]. An exchange between CNN moderator [[Kyra Phillips]] and Wales went like this:

On December 5, 2005, Wikipedia founder [[Jimbo Wales]] and Seigenthaler appeared on [[CNN]]. An exchange between CNN moderator [[Kyra Phillips]] and Wales went like this:

{{Cquote|PHILLIPS:...I ran my name. I was shocked to see what was under my name. I was pretty disappointed.  I saw that my bio was on there, which of course comes from CNN. But then there was stuff about how liberals -- I'm accused by liberals of showing right-wing bias, and then it links onto other blogs with a bias, and I look like a right-wing commie, if you were to look at my name on this Wikipedia site.  And I'm telling you right now, Jimmy, that's not how I want people to see me and understand me. And what I'm about and what I write about in my interviews, et cetera. So, you know, it's not just individuals like John, but me and many other people, that just have concerns that this is creating gossip that can be very harmful. And people go to these sites thinking that this is the truth.}}

{{Cquote|PHILLIPS:...I ran my name. I was shocked to see what was under my name. I was pretty disappointed.  I saw that my bio was on there, which of course comes from CNN. But then there was stuff about how liberals -- I'm accused by liberals of showing right-wing bias, and then it links onto other blogs with a bias, and I look like a right-wing commie, if you were to look at my name on this Wikipedia site.  And I'm telling you right now, Jimmy, that's not how I want people to see me and understand me. And what I'm about and what I write about in my interviews, et cetera. So, you know, it's not just individuals like John, but me and many other people, that just have concerns that this is creating gossip that can be very harmful. And people go to these sites thinking that this is the truth.}}

{{Cquote|WALES: Well, I mean, I think the real key is that the site matures over time, the -- all of the articles are edited over and over and over, and improved. Anyone's free to contribute. You're free to go and contribute.}}

{{Cquote|WALES: Well, I mean, I think the real key is that the site matures over time, the -- all of the articles are edited over and over and over, and improved. Anyone's free to contribute. You're free to go and contribute.}}

This in fact is not the case.  Phillips was not free to answer, and/or remove the objectionable content within her biographical entry, as Mr. Daniel Brandt at that exact moment wass discovering.  Not four days earlier, Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine regarding Brandt's objections to a false Wikipedia biography about him, "I find it hard to take him very seriously at all," and libelous slanders remained in Brandt's biography from nearly a year and half.   

This in fact is not the case.  Phillips was not free to answer, and/or remove the objectionable content within her biographical entry, as Mr. Daniel Brandt at that exact moment was discovering.  Not four days earlier, Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine regarding Brandt's objections to a false Wikipedia biography about him, "I find it hard to take him very seriously at all," and libelous slanders remained in Brandt's biography from nearly a year and half.   

Wales told CNN's Philips, "we're trying to make some minor adjustments."  Seigenthaler complained about the lack of accountability; "with accountability comes credilbility" Seigenthaler observed, and expressed the fear that, "I'm afraid we're going to get regulated media as a result of that. And I -- I tell you, I think if you can't fix it, both fix the history as well as the biography pages, I think it's going to be in real trouble, and we're going to have to be fighting to keep the government from regulating you."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html</ref>

Wales told CNN's Philips, "we're trying to make some minor adjustments."  Seigenthaler complained about the lack of accountability; "with accountability comes credilbility" Seigenthaler observed, and expressed the fear that, "I'm afraid we're going to get regulated media as a result of that. And I -- I tell you, I think if you can't fix it, both fix the history as well as the biography pages, I think it's going to be in real trouble, and we're going to have to be fighting to keep the government from regulating you."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html</ref>